Residents of the remote central Australian community of Laramba have lost a case against the Northern Territory Government over high levels of uranium in their drinking water.The tribunal ruled drinking water uranium levels were not the housing department's responsibility
Residents of Laramba, north-west of Alice Springs, lodged a legal case against the landlord, which in this case is the NT's Department of Housing. But in the NTCAT's ruling against the residents, the tribunal member Mark O'Reilly said the uranium in the water was not the responsibility of the landlord.
"If the water supply in Central Australia simply dried up completely it would not be the responsibility of the various landlords of Alice Springs to provide a remedy or compensation." "In reality the landlord does not make water available at the premises at all … The landlord's responsibility is to provide safe and functioning infrastructure to facilitate the supply of water by the service provider."Other community residents have fought housing department
qwadja What a shitty country we are
I hope they appeal this!
Oh so do Black Lives Matter or not? Not when you poison them, it seems.
BLM!! This is disgraceful.