Senate Select Committee on PFAS conducted hearings in Nowra on Tuesday, January 21.
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00:00So people who got nothing out of that settlement, who are unwell from PFAS, and showing up at that little law firm in the corner, they're quite a big law firm.
00:20Would you consider giving part of that $5 million back to the community so they can continue to deal with the health impacts?
00:30If it costs $500, which we've heard in this inquiry, to check blood of an individual, and this community can't afford that, would Shine consider giving some of that money back?
00:45Call it payment, call it reparations, but this community is still suffering and poor and still dying from this chemical, and Shine paid $5 million.
00:58I know that you have to pay people and do all of that, but you're still a very wealthy law firm, and you may want to take it on notice and take it back to the board and the shareholders or whoever makes the decisions, but I think my question is would you consider, would Shine consider giving some of that money back?
01:20It's been mentioned several times today, you said that his Honour made the same comment that it's very hard to value the loss of culture, or the impacts on culture or loss of identity or however you want to describe it.
01:37There must have been some methodology that put that $1 amount ahead in the community, for example, based on payouts in other places, maybe not correctly comparable, maybe this was the precedent.
01:52This is the first precedent that you're aware of, by the way, around loss of cultural amenity with PFAS. Does it happen anywhere else around the world?
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