Native title holders awarded more than $54m for economic, spiritual loss from NT’s McArthur River Mine

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-27/nt-mcarthur-river-mine-case-traditional-owners-win-compensation/106398116

9 Comments

  1. HalfwrongWasTaken on

    Mining companies being held accountable for wanton destruction of land?

    I think hell might have frozen over.

  2. What exactly is “spiritual loss”? The article also refers to “spiritual damage”, but it doesn’t really say what that means.

    Should the law be deciding on what “spiritual damage” someone incurred? And could any other group receive compensation for this?

  3. Unlucky_Hedgehog7409 on

    When will the handouts stop, the public purse can’t afford to pay for hurt feelings much longer. 

  4. Specific_Cupcake741 on

    It would be cool to see Aboriginals fighting more to take back their land and replenish of its natural resources.

    I don’t know that much about the indigenous rights, land ownership here in Australia and I’d like to learn more about their way of sustaining the land etc.

    Australians seem to have it on backwards when it comes to their connection to their indigenous culture and working together. Especially someone commenting here about what “spiritual growth” means, I also realise from my Australian friends you don’t learn much about the indigenous populations and culture in school.

    As a Maori and also an Urban Planner, I think it’s important to understand and connect with indigenous considering they’re thousand year old inhabitants, indigenous cultures connection to the land have ways to preserve and sustain it for future generations. New Zealand tend to work together with Maori in a lot of these ways, we may not see eye to eye but it’s more evident in the country as to what I see here. Just my two cents