BHP has accused coal miner Simon Turner of making “wild accusations” but refuses to say what they are. Michael West, also named in the court case, reports.
Simon Turner, a coal miner who has locked horns with mining giant BHP in the courts over wage theft, cannot afford a lawyer.
In fact, he sleeps on his garage floor and has to get the train down from Newcastle to Sydney to tackle BHP, and the five other large corporate defendants, and their phalanx of lawyers.
It was some ten against one – one man without legal counsel – at the hearing before Justice Needham in the Federal Court last Thursday.