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rd, 2024 at 6:42am:
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The veneration of Stone Age mythology has gone way too far.
Judge Natalie Charlesworth’s decision this week to permit construction of Santos’ Barossa gas pipeline was a rare defiance of one of the most important trends in Australian law of the past three decades: the embrace of Aboriginal mythology.
In the Santos case, a $5.8 billion project was delayed – at a cost that could be as high as $800 million – because three Tiwi Islanders alleged a rainbow serpent who lives in the ocean would be disturbed by a 66-centimetre-wide pipe.
“She patrols the coastline around the Tiwi Islands and also travels into the deep sea and this into the vicinity of the pipeline,” Charlesworth wrote in her judgment. “The risk arising from the activity was alleged to include a fear that the construction and presence of the pipeline would disturb Ampiji and that she may cause calamities, such as cyclones or illness that would harm (at least) the people of certain clans.”
Anyone who believes in the scientific method, which uses tests and experiments to divine reality, will be unable to prove Ampiji’s existence, or her powers over the weather. Yet, a mythical creature could have stopped a major project by one of Australia’s most important industries.The national corruption watchdog has been asked to consider whether foreign donors behind the Environmental Defenders Office may have adversely affected the conduct of public officials.
Opposition resources spokeswoman Susan McDonald has sent a letter to the National Anti-Corruption Commission urging it to investigate the taxpayer-funded EDO following a Federal Court judgment.
Judge Natalie Charlesworth earlier this year threw out a legal challenge that the EDO had brought against Santos’s plans for a new gas pipeline in the Timor Sea on behalf of a group of Tiwi Islanders after finding a series of failures and concerns in the conduct of the EDO and the academics it recruited as experts.
Senator McDonald flagged in late November that she would consider referring the EDO to the NACC, given the watchdog’s capacity to investigate the recipients of commonwealth grants.
The letter, dated December 5, draws attention to Justice Charlesworth’s judgment that the senator said showed how the EDO and its employees and subcontractors distorted and manipulated material before a court, coached witnesses and confected and constructed evidence during the Santos matter.
“Arguably, the purpose of the above conduct was to both intentionally and dishonestly mislead a court, and to also intentionally and dishonestly mislead the commonwealth government’s own regulatory authority, the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority, which is, in part, ‘responsible for integrity and environmental management for all offshore energy operation[s]’,” Senator McDonald wrote.
The senator noted Justice Charlesworth’s findings that a cultural heritage expert and EDO lawyer had engaged in the “subtle coaching” of Tiwi Islanders to effectively propel their traditions into the sea and the vicinity of Santos’s pipeline.https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/coalition-seeks-corruption-watchdog-prob...
Academic, legal and activist figures in the failed Environmental Defenders Office bid to scuttle a $5.8bn gas field near the Tiwi Islands concocted a rainbow serpent and crocodile man songline map based on guesswork and minimal consultation with Indigenous leaders, according to court documents.
Federal Court documents obtained by The Australian reveal academic and cultural experts exchanged emails and text messages coaching each other on how to use the
Ampiji (mother serpent) and Jirakupai (crocodile man) to block gas company Santos’s Barossa project in the Timor Sea.
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