Tiwi Islanders initially raised no objection to tapping the Barossa gasfield or the pipeline linking it to Darwin. Then the green lawyers rolled in with their academics-for-hire, persuaded a hanful of locals to rewrite their creation myths and stopped the project in its tracks. As the Federal Court has found, that campaign was a gigantic and cynical fraud
Northern Territory Indigenous elder, Dennis Tipakalippa, has won a landmark Federal Court case, halting the drilling at a massive gas project northwest of Darwin.
It’s not every week that we get to report a loss for the mining industry (and, consequently, a win for the world). Fortunately, this week saw a positive…