On the news tonight most of the Dolls Tk had came from his Auntie
In Queensland the same is done, the mining companies give the Elders Royalties and if they need new cars the mining companies pay for them to go get one they all drive 4wds up North Queensland where I live. I won't say what one Indigenous woman told me but she is campaigning against the royalties being handed out
As you mentioned GTF, sometimes the royalties from the mines are not handled correctly, as this article points out about the royalties given out at Tennant Creek, Northern Territory.
ABC News - Posted Mon 13 Sep 2021 at 5:59am
When it's Aboriginal mining royalty distribution time in Tennant Creek, Joebessgo Mayers has an even more difficult job trying to get kids to school.
At least 40 per cent of kids in Tennant Creek don't attend regularly.
"When they get their royalties, families are more active with alcohol," he said.
"They buy cars and electronics and whatever's left over goes straight into alcohol and gambling at a certain house where people play for big money."
The royalties are payments mining companies have to make to Aboriginal traditional owners in the NT for hosting operations on their land.
Traditional owners also get lease payments for infrastructure like mine haul roads and railways crossing their land. About $230 million a year in Aboriginal royalties is paid by mining companies in the NT.
She also sees a lot of royalty money spent on alcohol, bought on the black market to get around Tennant Creek's tight liquor restrictions
"When the royalties were on a couple of months ago, people went to Mount Isa and bought cartons of Mosel [white wine], they were selling that box for $1,000, and a bottle of rum of $200," she said.
"It just causes a lot of fighting between families, and people [are] just drunk, and then court list just gets bigger because they get picked up for drunk driving or whatever." "It's amazing in Tennant Creek when its royalty day, people are dressed up and are walking there to be on time and we are thinking, 'Wouldn't it be wonderful if they did that to look for a job or go to their work?'"