gayet wrote:Wild Drake is in court ordered liquidation.
Nice. A company in liquidation or that is not trading should not be able to make an application to manage crown land. From memory this is Hackett's third business that has gone bust, not a good record. Conservation interests have effectively used a very simple legal technique that big business uses against small opponents. Delay, delay, delay. Contest every small point. Admit nothing. Make the opponent incur costs. Wear the opponent down until they fade. I have used this quite a few times against very big respondents, with success.
The federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek is another way to stop this build. It could be put to her that after three businesses have failed (I think it's now three), Hackett has no viability running such an enterprise. It's also a WHA. Note the order - dollars then green. While some decision makers may have no empathy for green values they can understand dollars. Here's one - $4500 for three nights. That's more than many bushwalkers spend in a year. This is similar to the proposed Falls Hotham Alpine Crossing in Victoria, which may be on ice as the state of Victoria goes sort-of bust and there are other delays.
