At last another spurious claim put to rest. It seems Aboriginals are being used as pawns by federally funded environment groups. They should be made to pay costs without government propping them up. Plausible deniability by governments saying one thing and doing another through back doors.
NT Independent, did you miss the damning statements by the Judge?
From Australian Financial Review Jan 15 by Hanna Wooten and Ben Potter: —SNIPPET STARTS On Monday, Justice Natalie Charlesworth rejected claims by a group of Tiwi Islanders that the proposed pipeline would damage Sea Country and anger two creatures of their Dreaming stories – Ampiji, the rainbow serpent and the Crocodile Man.
Her judgment slammed the evidence based on “cultural mapping” presented by the EDO as “so lacking in integrity that no weight can be placed” on it and said there was “a significant degree of divergence” in the evidence given by Tiwi Islanders.
In one criticism, she said that an EDO lawyer and expert witness had engaged in “a form of subtle coaching” of some Tiwi witnesses by urging them to tell “their stories in a way that propelled their traditions into the sea and into the vicinity of the pipeline”.
This included getting one witness to show the songline of the Crocodile Man, an important creation story, entering the sea at Cape Fourcroy on the western coast of Bathurst Island at a time when the Tiwi Islands did not exist because the sea level was 120 meters lower than today.
Industry groups seized on the decision as a win for energy security and the economy, and Macquarie analyst Mark Wiseman said the result was “significant from a sovereign risk perspective” and sent “a signal to climate activists who ideologically seek to prevent all fossil fuel development”.
Opposition environment spokesman Jonno Duniam slammed the case as “a monumental waste of time [which was] destructive to our economy”; opposition resources spokeswoman Susan McDonald described it as “absurd” that Labor funded “legal activism against their own approvals” which delayed viable projects. —END OF SNIPPET
Territorians should demand the NT GOVERNMENT, COUNCILS and FEDERAL GOVERNMENT Departments cease funding the Environmental Defenders Office. They cant have Tax Payer Dollars when Stopping Tax Generation.
Just another very expensive exercise in futility paid by the taxpayer. Hopefully the learned people listening to manipulation and garbage are finally waking up.
At last another spurious claim put to rest. It seems Aboriginals are being used as pawns by federally funded environment groups. They should be made to pay costs without government propping them up. Plausible deniability by governments saying one thing and doing another through back doors.
NT Independent, did you miss the damning statements by the Judge?
From Australian Financial Review Jan 15 by Hanna Wooten and Ben Potter:
—SNIPPET STARTS
On Monday, Justice Natalie Charlesworth rejected claims by a group of Tiwi Islanders that the proposed pipeline would damage Sea Country and anger two creatures of their Dreaming stories – Ampiji, the rainbow serpent and the Crocodile Man.
Her judgment slammed the evidence based on “cultural mapping” presented by the EDO as “so lacking in integrity that no weight can be placed” on it and said there was “a significant degree of divergence” in the evidence given by Tiwi Islanders.
In one criticism, she said that an EDO lawyer and expert witness had engaged in “a form of subtle coaching” of some Tiwi witnesses by urging them to tell “their stories in a way that propelled their traditions into the sea and into the vicinity of the pipeline”.
This included getting one witness to show the songline of the Crocodile Man, an important creation story, entering the sea at Cape Fourcroy on the western coast of Bathurst Island at a time when the Tiwi Islands did not exist because the sea level was 120 meters lower than today.
Industry groups seized on the decision as a win for energy security and the economy, and Macquarie analyst Mark Wiseman said the result was “significant from a sovereign risk perspective” and sent “a signal to climate activists who ideologically seek to prevent all fossil fuel development”.
Opposition environment spokesman Jonno Duniam slammed the case as “a monumental waste of time [which was] destructive to our economy”; opposition resources spokeswoman Susan McDonald described it as “absurd” that Labor funded “legal activism against their own approvals” which delayed viable projects.
—END OF SNIPPET
Territorians should demand the NT GOVERNMENT, COUNCILS and FEDERAL GOVERNMENT Departments cease funding the Environmental Defenders Office. They cant have Tax Payer Dollars when Stopping Tax Generation.
Contact Your local MLA and the following Senators:
Luke Gosling: luke.gosling.mp@aph.gov.au
Mallandiri Mcarthy: senator.mccarthy@aph.gov.au
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price:Senator.NampijinpaPrice@aph.gov.au
Just another very expensive exercise in futility paid by the taxpayer. Hopefully the learned people listening to manipulation and garbage are finally waking up.
At long last some sense out of the Judiciary!!!