Opinion Articles
Trusting the Crown to Save the Lands
The state government, or as lawyers like to call it ‘The Crown’, has the ultimate say over what happens to the lands that it oversees. If it wants land farmed, it releases crown land and encourages farmers to come and take up virgin blocks of bush; if it wants minerals mined, it releases exploration acreage and calls for geologists to come and explore. In return it earns rents, royalties and taxes to fill its bottomless
Trevor Whittington
August 2, 2019
