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Russia loses High Court battle with Commonwealth over Canberra embassy site, but will be compensated (www.abc.net.au)
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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.

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[–] [S] 2 points 1 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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