Going into an election with reconciliation as a talking point and actively opposing First Nations in the court regarding not just proper consultation but trying to prevent them from discussing the lack of proper consultation would have been seen as hugely hypocritical.
It's not like they would have stopped the appeal either, everyone and their dog knew that we would be back in courts over the new round of consultation.
It was always going to come down to whether or not the FCA judges saw the consultation as adequate or not, that hasn't changed.
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