MEGAN MARIE IN DE BRAEKT

Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision

This is not a lawyer-disciplinary matter but a State Administrative Tribunal (WA) land valuation review between Broadcast Australia Pty Ltd and the Valuer General concerning the Hamersley Transmission Facility. The Tribunal considered whether restrictions under the National Transmission Network Sale Act 1999 (Cth) were relevant to valuation (held not relevant, as akin to a title restriction rather than a law of general application), the proportion of land to be set aside for conservation (Carnaby's Black Cockatoo habitat), planning lead-in time, and the preferable valuation methodology (comparable sales preferred over hypothetical development method). The Tribunal allowed the review, substituting an unimproved value of AUD 24,100,000 and gross rental value of AUD 1,050,000. No findings of misconduct or dishonesty; no sanctions or costs orders were made.