{"id":123919,"date":"2024-09-10T09:08:42","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T23:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=123919"},"modified":"2024-09-10T09:08:57","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T23:08:57","slug":"explosive-letter-buries-pliberseks-reasons-for-blocking-goldmine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=123919","title":{"rendered":"Explosive letter buries Plibersek\u2019s reasons for blocking goldmine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tanya Plibersek has hit out at \u201cmisinformation\u201d over her decision to block a waste dump proposed as part of a goldmine development and urged the Coalition to \u201ccome clean\u201d on whether it believes Indigenous heritage should be protected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The environment and water minister was criticised after she issued a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/article\/2024\/aug\/16\/rare-order-given-to-protect-wiradjuri-sacred-site-from-goldmine-tailings-dam\">partial section 10 declaration<\/a>&nbsp;to protect Aboriginal heritage from being destroyed by a tailings dam for the proposed McPhillamys gold project near Blayney in New South Wales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The developer Regis Resources had planned to build the tailings dam for the goldmine at the headwaters of the nearby Belubula River.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>New Claims<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Claims of Indigenous sites near a proposed $1bn NSW goldmine were examined and dismissed as having \u2018no authenticity\u2019 in a cultural audit overseen by elders, says Roy Ah-See.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why then was the mine blocked?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Was it blocked because the political donations from this miner were not enough for a favourable decision?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was it blocked because the political donations from this miner were not enough for a favourable decision?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":123920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,999,35],"tags":[12865,5026,13243],"class_list":["post-123919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-australia-politics","category-breaking-news","tag-blayney","tag-nsw","tag-regis-resources"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123921,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123919\/revisions\/123921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/123920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}