Native title holders have had a victory in the High Court against the NT Government’s decision to grant Singleton Station a massive water licence that would have allowed 40,000 megalitres a year to be drawn for an intensive horticulture business, with the court ruling the water application must go back to the government which must now consider proper environmental approvals.
The controversial decision to grant the station’s lessees Fortune Agribusiness the 30-year licence south of Tennant Creek – the largest in the Territory’s history – was challenged by the Mpwerempwer Aboriginal Corporation, which had argued the government did not lawfully grant the water licence because the minister did not properly justify it for 30 years rather than the standard 10 years and had not taken Aboriginal cultural values into consideration.
They did not win despite their continuing effort to destroy Aboriginal employment, the licence will be reissued on a rolling basis, you should be looking at this continual programme of destroying Aboriginal jobs with Lawfare, you could also look at some of the astounding salarys paid in the Aboriginal industry