Traditional owners seek $225 million

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    Here we go again.....

    A group of traditional owners are seeking "no less than" $225 million in compensation over the effects of the Northern Territory's largest zinc and lead mine on their native title rights and alleged damage to sacred sites.

    In an unprecedented trial heard in the Federal Court this week in Darwin, lawyers from the Northern Land Council (NLC) representing a group of Gudanji, Yanyuwa and Yanyuwa-Marra traditional owners laid out their final submissions.


    Traditional owners seek $225 million in compensation over impacts of McArthur River Mine expansion (msn.com)
 
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