Continuing our Dispatch from the last two weeks with this the third and final extract.  First published 10 June 2013.

In a show of solidarity with their fellow indigenous constituents, Malarndirri McCarthy the then member of the NT Legislative Assembly seat of Arafura joined by Karl Hampton and Alison Anderson, famously crossed the floor to vote against the government’s decision to divert the McArthur River to allow more mining developments.  Their efforts came to nought.

The McArthur River diversion near Xstrata’s mine in the Northern Territory

From a 2010 ABC News Report: “The NLC’s chief executive, Kim Hill, says the mine’s previous owner, MRM, said it had begun collecting seed stock for revegetation when the diversion was approved in 2006. But he says there is no sign that work has begun.”

Last week the NT Government announced a major expansion at Glencore Xtrata’s McArthur River mine.  The mine will become the biggest lead-zinc mine  IN THE WORLD.

I googled Glencore Xstrata:
Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDmXRAOShwU

One of the founders of Glencore was the aptly named Marc Rich, a U.S.A. tax fugitive until pardoned by President Clinton.

The recently merged Glencore and Xstrata have a long complex history of market manipulation, deceitful negotiations, tax evasion and corporate bullying.

Much human suffering and misery have been occasioned by struggles for control of resources that Glencore and/or Xstrata have been and continue to be implicated in.

For example Glencore acquired copper and cobalt mines in the Democratic (!) Republic of Congo. The acquisitions weren’t exactly kosher.
http://www.globalwitness.org/sites/default/files/Global%20Witness%20Q%26A%20on%20Glencore%20in%20the%20Congo.pdf

Breaking the ‘business model’ of Glencore Xstrata in Australia hasn’t been mentioned by campaigning politicians.

In Warlpiri to call someone a walkanji is an ultimate insult.

It means liar.

Glencore Xstrata are walkanji-nyayini.

From Bob Marley’s Babylon System:

Tell the children the truth!!
Don’t worry be Happy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo4OnQpwjkc

Ngaka na-nyara nyanyi
Jungarrayi