Indigenous trust managing funds from Heathgate Resources under scrutiny
Beverley uranium mine.
(Image by Geomartin, Wikimedia Commons).
Australian media are all over a recent court case that involves the revenues derived from Heathgate Resources’ Beverley and Beverley North uranium mines, located in the Frome Basin in South Australia.
Beverley is Australia’s third uranium mine and the country’s only operating in-situ leach mine.
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The Advertiser and other outlets, an Indigenous-run trust called Rangelea Holdings Pty Ltd has received, since 2003, nearly A$40 million from Heathgate – which is owned by US-based nuclear company General Atomics – and its affiliate Quasar Resources. The funds were to be distributed to all Adnyamathanha people based on their native title rights.
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Early last month, hundreds of Adnyamathanha people began travelling from their rocky ancestral lands around the Flinders Ranges and from elsewhere in South Australia to gather at Port Augusta, a town known as the nation’s crossroads.
As the evening of April 9 drew in
, there was mounting anticipation. Some found shelter with relatives or friends; others unrolled swags as evening temperatures plunged in the desert air.
Hope had drawn them – hope that when the next day dawned there would be light shed, at last, on the millions of dollars from mining revenues which had poured through a maze of entities associated with the Adnyamathanha Traditional Lands Association (ATLA), the body set up to manage their native title rights.
âWhere did the money go?â: How native title failed a community
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Early last month, hundreds of Adnyamathanha people began travelling from their rocky ancestral lands around the Flinders Ranges and from elsewhere in South Australia to gather at Port Augusta, a town known as the nationâs crossroads.
As the evening of April 9 drew in
, there was mounting anticipation. Some found shelter with relatives or friends; others unrolled swags as evening temperatures plunged in the desert air.
Hope had drawn them â hope that when the next day dawned there would be light shed, at last, on the millions of dollars from mining revenues which had poured through a maze of entities associated with the Adnyamathanha Traditional Lands Association (ATLA), the body set up to manage their native title rights.
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