Secret $800M+ payout for a Hoax
Rio Tinto pays compensation for Juukan, a site that wasn't sacred, that was legally blasted. How do they get away with it?
Another detail that seems to be lost on everybody, including the Australian press.
Rio Tinto and the PKKP issued a joint statement saying that a compensation package had been agreed upon.
(See here: https://www.riotinto.com/en/news/releases/2022/pkkp-and-rio-tinto-to-create-juukan-gorge-legacy-foundation).
The amount, believed to be more than $800 million, has remained confidential because the PKKP doesn't want to disclose it.
Nobody said anything about it. I believe that the amount should be disclosed, and it will become apparent that it was all about money.
Do you remember the outrage provoked by the so-called gag clauses in 2020 when the Traditional owners? And Marcia Langton complained about the fact that the amount of mining royalties couldn't be disclosed)?
Where are all the virtue signallers now? Why isn't anyone saying anything about the secrecy surrounding the compensation amount?
It's a classic case of do as I say, not as I do.
The hypocrisy, once again, is staggering. the Juukan hoax is the gift that keeps on giving.