The federal government has vetoed a $370 million green energy project in far north Queensland despite its potential to deliver hundreds of jobs and cheaper energy.The Kaban Wind Farm and accompanying grid augmentation was expected to generate 250 jobs in the region and deliver more affordable power to households and businesses.
It seems Dintwe’s focus on actually doing his job put a target on his back.
He said “concerted efforts” to remove him from office came within weeks of Bongo being appointed Minister of State Security. Evidence he presented suggests Bongo – who was arrested on charges of corruption in 2019 and later acquitted by controversial Cape Judge President John Hlophe – and his then director-general, Arthur Fraser, launched a twin-pronged attack.
Bongo, according to Dintwe, tried a legislative approach to negate his oversight powers, while Fraser tried to hound him out with unfounded and illogical accusations. He happened to have been investigating a complaint in which Fraser played a central role, filed by DA politician John Steenhuisen.
R v R [2004] FLR 98).
There is often a departure from equality in farming cases due to the non-matrimonial nature of some farming assets. For example, a farm which has been gifted, inherited and/or in the family for generations, in the expectation that it will be handed down, is an important factor which the court will take into consideration.
Whilst a distinction can be made between matrimonial and non-matrimonial assets, the needs of one or both parties will dictate the sway of a settlement. However, needs are an elastic concept, and if needs can be satisfied without recourse to non-matrimonial farming assets, the yardstick of equality can be stretched and tested. Each case will turn on its facts and the outcome will depend on a wide variety of factors.