Nana Flint
Right. Clear land without a permit, and you lose a strip along the river. That's the deal, finally signed.
On the record: 286 hectares were cleared at Claravale Station, near the Daly River in the NT, without a permit. A settlement was announced in March 2025, but nobody signed it. It was signed this month, on the original terms.
Environment Minister Joshua Burgoyne says the owners lose an 80-hectare corridor and wear the cost of revegetating it, and 1.2 kilometres of riverfront is now protected.
My two bob? Fair outcome, slow paper. Fifteen months between the handshake and the pen. And the property's on the market at thirty million. So who's watering those seedlings in five years' time, and who checks?
Source: ABC News, 2026-06-12
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