Not sure as haven't read carefully even that one article and no others on it, but looks in those two places the bureaucratic error mentioned could mean the granting of the mining leases in the first place. Really nothing to do with 'handing land back' except that the leases could be all part of negotiations over that particular area. i really don't know .. excerpt from the same article ..
Australia supplies 95% of the world’s opal. But mines at Lightning Ridge and White Cliffs, the main opal production hubs in NSW, are currently under threat. In May, the department of mines and regional NSW instructed 858 miners to stop work, after a review found 3,343 mining claims granted between 1 January 2015 and 13 February 2023 were invalid. [...] After revealing the error, the department began a title revalidation program that required miners to re-apply for their claims, and refunded the fees paid by those whose claim was found to be invalid. Natural resources minister Courtney Houssos held meetings in Lightning Ridge and White Cliffs in an attempt to clear the confusion.
[...Again not sure, but that error could just refer to Lightning Ridge. White Cliffs i think is a totally separate situation where the miners are worried now because of what happened in LR. Am guessing...]
Lightning Ridge is 700km north-west of Sydney. Drive another 700km west along the Kamilaroi and Mitchell highways, through the town of Bourke, and you’ll reach White Cliffs.
Graeme Downton has been living and mining in White Cliffs for 30 years. His home is a five-bedroom dugout, an underground home cut straight out of the rock. He also operates an opal shop. Both are on leasehold land and cannot be converted to freehold.
The area is held as native title claim by the Barkandji people. In 2021 the Barkandji Native Title Corporation signed an Indigenous Land Use Agreement with the NSW government to grant permanent leases to people living in dugouts at White Cliffs. State housing minister Melinda Pavey said the agreement was a “win-win” because it provided permanent security for residents while recognising Barkandji claim to the land.
Barkandji Native Title Corporation chairman Leroy Johnson says he understands the concern of people in White Cliffs but says the lease agreement is working.
On Hamas because their constitution says Israel should disappear, and because they are not willing to concede any Palestinian land, which as been renamed Israel, to the Jewish people they are labelled as terrorists. That roughly is why, i think, they are seen differently from Fatah. And because they have been willing to use terrorist methods (as Israel obviously has used against Palestinians since 1948 (or whenever)) they have been labeled terrorists by the West. Even though they have said they would honor any peace deal with Israel. Fatah renounced terrorism .. https://irp.fas.org/world/para/plo.htm .. in 1988.
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