Mining giants including Hancock Prospecting and Rio Tinto lobbied the Albanese government to weaken national environmental reforms, warning the government’s “nature positive plan” could cost billions of dollars in lost investment and tens of thousands of jobs in Western Australia alone.
Documents released under freedom of information laws show a consortium of mining interests – including Hancock Prospecting boss Garry Korte and Simon Trott, the chief executive of Rio Tinto’s iron ore division – wrote to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in March, asking him to personally intervene in the environment laws’ drafting process. NO jobs people in mining NO money for dole or schools or roads or doctors or people go the ALP kick them OUT And the Greens to
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