Elders attack Irwin crusade to block mine
Padraic Murphy; 14/5/08
Cape York indigenous leaders have strongly attacked Steve Irwin’s widow, Terri, for trying to stop a mine going ahead on a 135,000ha property on Cape York that the Irwins were given last year. The Howard government last year gave $6.25 million to the Irwins to acquire a 135,000ha former cattle station on Cape York, which the family promised to turn into the Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve to continue the conservation work of Irwin, who died in September 2006 after being struck by a stingray. But since then, mining company Cape Alumina, which has mining leases over about 10 per cent of the property and had been negotiating with Aboriginal councils and traditional owners about mining adjacent properties, has been unable to access parts of the property that contains bauxite deposits they want to mine.
See: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23695389-5013404,00.html
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