My point about this country is that Australia is actually the...

My point about this country is that Australia is actually the headquarters of mining, in the world - so I was being ironic. Defeat has been snatched from the jaws of victory, in the case of Battery Minerals. Mining companies have been built from Australia, all over the world, by blokes, kelpies and utes for decades (over a hundred years), and here we have a bunch of people that simply weren't up to the task of delivering what was basically deliverable (get a mine up and running), and were paid a lot of money. Very un-Australian, as they've been made rich while sending regular Aussies broke.