Eventually, NSW Premier Mike Baird will realise the time has come to cut adrift his predecessor, Barry O’Farrell, and make amends for abandoning due process and respect for property rights. O’Farrell is out of politics, but the impact of his greatest blunder — expropriating US assets — has tainted the ...
Read More »Asset Seizure by NSW Infuriates Americans
American institutions are considering launching international arbitration proceedings against Australia because the government of former NSW premier Barry O’Farrell expropriated US assets worth $120 million. The US institutions, which had major shareholdings in listed mining company NuCoal Resources, were among the main losers last year when the O’Farrell government cancelled ...
Read More »The Cancellation of Exploration Licence 7270 (Letter)
Dear Ms Lantry, I refer to your correspondence to the Premier, the Hon Mike Baird, MP, dated 5 May 2015 concerning the cancellation of Exploration Licence 7270 by the Mining Amendment (ICAC Operations Jasper and Acacia) Act 2014. I note you have previously written to the former Premier, the Hon ...
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