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Thu, 08 Jun 2000 13:31:38 -0700
----- Original Message ----- From: Trudy Bray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: news-clip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 12:57 PM Subject: -[Tino Rangatiratanga]- The West Australian: Purchase of $8m station for Aborigines investigated > The West Australian > Purchase of $8m station for Aborigines investigated > > Date: 08/06/2000 > > The Indigenous Land Corporation, which buys property for dispossessed Aborigines, has set up a closed inquiry into its purchase of the > 300,000-hectare Roebuck Plains station near Broome for $8 million last year. > > It will be chaired by the former NSW chief justice Sir Laurence Street. > > The Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Mr Herron, has been pressing the corporation to hold an inquiry into the purchase, amid claims it > paid too much. > > In February, the Herald revealed that the Indigenous Land Corporation bought Roebuck Plains from the Great Northern Pastoral > Company for $8 million, a year after the Melbourne-based pastoralist bought the station for $1.3 million. > > The price included $3.5 million for the land, $300,000 for plant and $4.2 million for cattle, even though a muster was not held until after > the sale. > > Great Northern also holds the management contract to run the station - one of two proposed sites for the relocation of Broome airport - > and shares in profits from cattle sales. > > Land corporation chief executive Mr John Wilson said its board met in Brisbane on Tuesday and agreed to the inquiry after allegations > about the purchase. The corporation's chairwoman, Ms Sharon Firebrace, is reported to have raised questions about the land deal at > board meetings and with Senator Herron. > > Mr Wilson said the terms of reference of the inquiry were being drawn up but the board would report to Senator Herron when the > inquiry was completed. > > The inquiry would not be public and would not focus on the 15-year management contract granted to Great Northern, which has > appointed director Mr Rodney Illingworth as manager. > > Mr Illingworth walked free from the District Court in Broome in February after a charge of receiving a stolen 7,000-year-old fossilised > human footprint was dismissed by Judge John Wisbey. > > The decision that there was insufficient evidence to convict him is to be appealed next week by the Director of Public Prosecutions. > > The footprint at the centre of the case has not been recovered. > > -The West Australian > > This material is subject to copyright and any unauthorised use, copying or mirroring is prohibited. > > > > ************************************************************************* > This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without > permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, > scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal > copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of > the copyright owner, except for "fair use." > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Free @Backup service! Click here for your free trial of @Backup. > @Backup is the most convenient way to securely protect and access > your files online. Try it now and receive 300 MyPoints. > http://click.egroups.com/1/4935/3/_/20596/_/960444450/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _________________________________________________ > Subscribe to the Tino Rangatiratanga eGroup > http://aotearoa.wellington.net.nz/subsc/ > _________________________________________________ > > > ------------------------------------------------------ RecOzNet2 has a page @ http://www.green.net.au/recoznet2 and is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/ To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], and in the body of the message, include the words: unsubscribe announce or click here mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20announce This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use." RecOzNet2 is archived for members @ http://www.mail-archive.com/recoznet2%40paradigm4.com.au/