‘Political damage control’: PM suggests change to new NSW gold mine

NSW Minerals Council Chief Excitative Stephen Galilee slams Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Minister for the Environment Tanya Plibersek for rejecting a new NSW gold mine and then suggesting the project can proceed if a tailings dam is moved. “This is political damage control from the Prime Minister and the minister involved [Tanya Plibersek] this decision is a dagger at the heart of the project,” Mr Galilee told Sky News host Steve Price. “This is the kind of political damage control and rhetoric you get from people who have never had a real job outside of parliament; they have been in parliament for too long. “To move that tailings dam means an entire redesign of the mine itself.”