“Teals and trolls” is how NT Chief Minister Natasha Fyles described “southern activists” in a speech to the National Press Club for criticising the Middle Arm petrochemical hub. What’s the scam?
The scam is the Teals and trolls have had the cheek to express a view about public money, some $1.9bn of it, which has been earmarked to subsidise the second Darwin port and gas hub, a project whose major beneficiaries are multinational companies and fracking outfits such as the publicly subsidised Tamboran Resources whose major shareholder is a Texan billionaire.
Not to mention the planet. Fracking the Beetaloo Basin to feed the petrochemicals plant will severely blow out Australia’s emissions.
“Ms Fyles took a swipe at cross-benchers, who are seeking an increase to the Petroleum Resources Rent Tax in federal parliament, accusing them of breathtaking hypocrisy,” reported AAP.
“And the Teals and the trolls can spread their nonsense about it all they want … the Territory is not for turning.
“You know, it’s bad enough to get lectures from people living on Sydney’s northern beaches, or in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs, about what jobs Territorians can or can’t have.”
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Michael West established Michael West Media in 2016 to focus on journalism of high public interest, particularly the rising power of corporations over democracy. West was formerly a journalist and editor with Fairfax newspapers, a columnist for News Corp and even, once, a stockbroker.