They can afford to pay reparations.

“Jesse Gregson led massacres of Aboriginal people before joining the Australian Agricultural Company as its longest-serving superintendent

“AACo, today worth about $830m, is still Australia’s largest beef producer, with stations covering almost 1% of the nation’s land mass. Its majority shareholder is the UK billionaire Joe Lewis, whose family own Tottenham Hotspur, followed by the Australian mining magnate Andrew Forrest and his ex-wife, Nicola Forrest.”

#Reparations #AustralianAboriginalGenocide #Auspol #andrewForrest #MindarooFoundation #FortescueMetals #FMG #Auspol

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/aug/07/the-descendants-arsenic-in-the-damper-campers-driven-off-a-cliff-murky-history-beef-producer-aaco-ntwnfb

The mining company #FortescueMetals – owned by the billionaire #AndrewForrest, who says he aims to meet “real zero” carbon emissions – has sharply #criticised the #Albanese government’s approval of a 40-year life extension for the #NorthWestShelf #gas processing facility.

The company’s chief executive, #DinoOtranto, said the idea that #Australia could lock in #fossilfuel projects until 2070 while still claiming progress toward #netzero was “concerning”. #auspol

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/may/29/australia-news-live-coalition-labor-net-zero-climate-change-woodside-north-west-shelf-tasmania-budget-ntwnfb?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-68379e628f08f86f308af76c#block-68379e628f08f86f308af76c