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"Have you spent much time in India? How many Indians condemn Adani, and what are their interests?"

Spent years there off and on, I'm even fluent in Hindi, and Indians at all levels of society condemn Adani, politicians, police (privately), doctors, farmers, fishermen and just ordinary people.

The opinion of most Indians that I know is shared by the world's major banks; he can't be trusted.

Is Mise,

Have you visited recently - since the mine issue came up? Did you interview people about Adani? With their massive population, poverty etc., Indians could not possibly be interested in Adani, even if they had ever heard of him. I think you are just relying on dodgy media reports like everyone else available in the gutter press. I hope you are not going to claim knowledge of Indians in high places - the only ones who would possibly have something to say about Adani.

Foxy, I'm sure your family own a computer or two, smart phones galore, cars, washing machines, cloths, shoes, refrigerators & freezers, floor coverings & lounges. I'll bet you even like our health care, welfare & legal system.

Has it ever occurred to you to wonder just where the money to pay for the importation of all this stuff, & the systems comes from.

Well it wasn't by manufacturing & exporting anything.

Not very much came from growing & exporting stuff. Even where we manage to do a little of that, the ratbag greens want to stop it.

No it came from mining & exporting the mined, virtually untouched. Mining is one of the very few industries that can afford our huge wages & cost structure, & still make a profit. We even price ourselves out of down stream processing.

Now I doubt you want to live in a dirt floor grass hut, with none of these lovely products of civilisation, but unless we continue mining, that is the only prospect.

Unfortunately the product & the wealth generated by mining get used up. You have to keep developing new mines if you want the continued supply of all those goodies.

So sorry sweetie, you can't have one in our Australia today, we have stuffed all the rest. Every one wants a free ride today. Well we somehow have to pay for that gravy train, & all we have left is mining. It's mining or that grass hut, & we can't be all that choosy about the customers, unfortunately.

Hasbeen

ps don't make it a requirement for people to think. I mean its 2017!

Well said, Hasbeen. The unworldly Left just doesn't get it.

Dear Hassie,

Unfortunately our agricultural and grazing lands will be
destroyed as will our water resources, and so will
our Great Barrier Reef which is a money generating
tourist attraction. Railways and wharves will be built
which will eventually be abandoned and we will be left
with a giant hole in the ground as we see in the Victorian
coal-mines. At the end of it all we will have nothing
and the few foreigners will have everything. Tell me in
20 years that you were right and I was wrong.