Although I would class Cocoroc near Melbourne, and Kiandra and Cabramurra in NSW, in the same category of utter government dickery that resulted in total community destruction for no good reason…
Unfortunately the difference between Auswegians and Yanks is that people here do not give a fuck when this happens, except when it involves Aboriginals, and therefore they can score woke points by virtue signalling about how “terrible” forced town closures are (see: Mutjulitju, Maralinga, Roebourne and most notably Oombulgurri).
If it’s a majority-white settlement..? City folk, who make up the vast majority of my countrymen, couldn’t give a rat’s arse, as the saying goes…
This sort of shit happened (and continues to happen, albeit much more rarely) in Aus, too. Most notably this place: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittenoom,_Western_Australia
Although I would class Cocoroc near Melbourne, and Kiandra and Cabramurra in NSW, in the same category of utter government dickery that resulted in total community destruction for no good reason…
Unfortunately the difference between Auswegians and Yanks is that people here do not give a fuck when this happens, except when it involves Aboriginals, and therefore they can score woke points by virtue signalling about how “terrible” forced town closures are (see: Mutjulitju, Maralinga, Roebourne and most notably Oombulgurri).
If it’s a majority-white settlement..? City folk, who make up the vast majority of my countrymen, couldn’t give a rat’s arse, as the saying goes…