A Supreme Court judge has dismissed a challenge over the legality of a minister granting a 40,000 megalitre water licence to Fortune Agribusiness for the remote Singleton Station, finding in part that the Territory Families Minister who made the decision in place of the Environment Minister, was able to give reasonable and rational consideration to the matter in the four days she took to make the decision.

Mpwerempwer Aboriginal Corporation (MAC) commenced proceedings against the Territory Families and Urban Housing Minister Kate Worden, as the delegate of the then-environment minister Eva Lawler, and Fortune Agribusiness in January 2022. The Arid Lands Environment Centre (ALEC) commenced separate proceedings in the same month against Ms Lawler and the company, proceedings which were later ordered to be tried and determined together.

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