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Council Took Halliburton Tender To Avoid LawsuitIf an Australian local council has "emotional problems" using Halliburton, it must accept them anyway. That's the message being sent to the world this week by the Shire Council of Byron Bay, on the Northern coast of New South Wales. The town, once the haven of surfers and hippies, now the "holiday home" of international stars such as Paul Hogan and Hugh Jackman, is now home to KBR employees as they upgrade the local sewerage plant. Councillor Tom Tabart made the situation plain when he recently told the Northern Star newspaper that " "Refusal on a political basis would have surely resulted in legal action against us," He went on to say that "The sad truth is that these corporations now control the world’s political systems and until we can get governments off their corrupt teat we are going to be forced to deal with them."
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