i think this is some interesting statistics , page-9

Doughboy

That blasted "Buy" recommendation still keeps getting attached to me posts. When I always mean "None".

You quoted:

"The words 'public interest' are so wide that they comprehend the whole field of objection other than objection founded on deficiencies in the application and in the required marking out of the land applied for. For instance the public interest may tell against the grant of a mining lease even though particular interests of an individual are the only interests primarily affected. It may thus be in the public interest that the interests of that individual be not overborne. However, all the objections can be and should be related to public interest. But private interests as such are not a relevant consideration. So far as they are intended to be protected, they are specifically so protected by the Act itself."

I think this is a great quote. Yes, I've read it before.

Regarding the Bowler decision I think that if we accept that the Minista has the power to give Shovelanna back (back-handedly) to RIO, then it really is only a question of (if not returned to RIO), "has the private interests of the RIO mob been overborne"?

All I can do personally is lol.

But? Am I laughing in personal (private interest) grief or laughing because I think it is funny to imagine that because Cazaly found Shovelanna was vacant crown land, and then Cazaly pegged it, that as a result of Cazaly doing what it had the PERFECT legal right to do, the RIO mob's private interest had been overborne?

Can one inflict an overbearance upon oneself and go to the government in search of relief? Yes, according to Bowler who says the State’s Honour is at stake! And the result of letting the RIO mob loose Shovelanna would be damaging to the “Public Interest”….even though it is ONLY the DIRT! Only a lump of DIRT. That is, there is NO mining going on down there.

But then as I see it, the Dirt is like the grin on the Cheshire Cat. The DIRT is all that remains when the Cheshire Cat (RIO’s Exploration Licence) disappeared.

I think I’ve compared the Bowler decision to scenes from Alice in Wonderland, before.

And then we hear of a quadriplegic person loosing their millions awarded in a hard fought court case via an investment adviser (aka Crook, or Courier, whatever) and the government turns the other cheek by way of not wanting to be involved. Otherwise where will "relief" of private woes end?

Well, according to the Bowler decision it seems to me to “endless end” in any number of s.111A (1a)-(1c) Ministerial decisions to protect the State’s honour when that honour is challenged/provoked by a big mining company forgetting to protect its private interest. Provided that HONOUR and SIZE are one and the same.

But again, I lol. Why? Because of the last part of the above quote by Doughboy. It says:

Quote: “But private interests as such are not a relevant consideration. So far as they are intended to be protected, they are specifically so protected by the Act itself"…...End of quote….hahahahahahahaha!!!!

Why am I laughing? Because that bit of the quote “says” that the ACT (Mining Act 1978) protects the private interests of the RIO mob, just as it protects the private interests of any sized business, BY SPECIFICALLY GUARANTEEING THEIR TENEMENT RIGHTS (via the rights of the State of Westralia….and in the case of Shovelanna, via an Exploration licence).

It’s the law! And it also guarantees those tenement rights BUT subject to the obligation to renew before the tenement expires, plus the cheque.

The Act does not, as Bowler seems to think, CARE about the blueman courier. As far as the Act is concerned, the RIO mob and the Courier are one and the same THING.

But what the RIO mob are arguing is that the RIO mob’s brain is (one and the same as) the Courier while their heart is (one and the same as) the Cheque. And we all know that the cheque arrived on time. Therefore RIO mob is say, yes but, no but, yes but, my heart was in it!

What Bowler’s decision means is that in the case of Shovelanna, the Heart wins over the brain. Ah, the ages old struggle between male and female aspects of our sexual existences.

And that is what I suspect Mr. Bowler would like us to believe according to his published reasons.

Not that I’m overbearingly implying there could be unpublished Bowler decision reasons. But then, he is still just a politician, these days. And if I could, I’d turn back time to make things better for him.

But then that is my heart speaking. The heart can never make promises that the brain might not challenge. So if I could turn back time I’m afraid my brain might put my interests ahead of Mr. Bowlers. Besides, to help Mr. Bowler I’d have to go back much further than the Bowler decision, I suspect.

But of course I would, if I could, kill 2 birds with the one stone. And all would be right with the world.

The RIO mob’s suffering will just melt into the forgotten trivial facts of history. And probably would not get a mention in even the largest of future compilations of history. A forgotten series of entries in the lost records of the DOIR, Westralia. Besides, who will remember there ever was a DOIR. The name is sure to change. And change again and again.

Just like here in Sydney the only reference to the existence of the MWS&DB is the occasional sewer cover inscribed MWS&DB – Metropolitan Water Sewage & Drainage Board.

Nothing lasts forever. And soon, maybe, Shovelanna will be but another hole in the ground after Cazaly & Echelon have done their THING.