Russia loses High Court battle with Commonwealth over Canberra embassy site, but will be compensated

a year ago by tau to c/canberra

The lease was granted to Russia in 2008, but was withdrawn when parliament passed a new law citing ASIO advice that the planned embassy could pose a threat to national security.

Russia has lost its High Court bid to strike out a law preventing it from building a new embassy in Canberra.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said there were national security concerns about having the Russian embassy so close to Parliament House.

While the High Court found the new law was valid, the Commonwealth will have to compensate Russia for revoking the lease.

Thedogdrinkscoffee 3 points a year ago

Will the compensation take form of a donation to the "Russian Reparations Fund for the Illegal War of Agression in Ukraine"? The Russian government will get a comemorative bronze plaque apologizing for their evil?

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Tau 2 points a year ago

Probably hard to justify legally, I expect the best we can hope for is just giving back the $3m they paid without counting in the massive land price rises since then. It'd be amusing to turn around and make it the new Ukrainian embassy site though...

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No1 3 points a year ago

What I don't get is that the timeline mentioned above implies that THEY GRANTED A LEASE TO RUSSIA BEFORE THEY HAD EVEN SPOKEN TO ASIO ABOUT IT OR ASKED FOR ADVICE.

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