Police and federal regulators are probing a power struggle within the local Indigenous organisation near Olympic Dam negotiating for compensation.
and nearby copper prospects are in limbo amid organisational chaos within the Kokatha Aboriginal Corporation arising from a controversial annual meeting of the native title group last month.Bloomberg
“Police are working with [the federal governments Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations] in relation to recent board elections and governance. Police will not be providing any further comment at this time,” an SA Police spokesman said.The KAC has since told members it is unable to publish the results of the elections until their validity is clarified.
Consent from KAC will also be required before BHP can start mining the Oak Dam copper prospect, and the two groups were scheduled to start work on “negotiation protocols” this month as a first step towards a potentially lucrative Oak Dam agreement. A spokeswoman for the federal regulator said the ORIC register of KAC directors had not been updated since the February meeting. “ORIC has no powers to determine or decide who the validly appointed directors were ... only a court can do this,” she added.ORIC said it had received but rejected an application to change the register of directors after the meeting.
BHP’s efforts to strike a lucrative new agreement with the KAC stems from the fact the existing Olympic Dam agreement was struck in 2008 before a native title claim had been successfully lodged over the area. With no exclusive titleholder to deal with, BHP designed the 2008 Olympic Dam agreement to funnel money to three groups: the Kokatha, the Kuyani and the Barngarla.
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