Breaking: Record payout after billionaire built mine without traditional owners' permission
1mon 6d ago by quokk.au/u/Quokka in fns@quokk.au from www.abc.net.au
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/60026292
Justice Burley noted the 240 sacred sites inside the Solomon Hub mining area that had become inaccessible to the Yindjibarni people, 124 of which had been "completely destroyed" by the mining operations.
Sorry we permanently destroyed parts of your culture. Here's 0.02% of the profit we made from the willful destruction.
Cost of doing business, from the looks of it.
The billionaire is worth about $20 billion. That $150 settlement is about 0.75%.
Should've been 2bil base + all profits from mining.
A slap on the wrist.
A bargain, even.
That is a weird way to say that some billionaire stole a mine.