The Age
This is an epic tale involving the struggle between Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest’s giant, global mining company, Fortescue Metals Group (FMG), and the Yindjibarndi people of the Pilbara region where the FMG has been mining without the approval of the Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation (YAC). It’s an on-going tussle (despite a YAC High Court victory) that goes back years and Paul Cleary‘s study of the case inevitably involves a highly complex legal, paper and cultural trail – all against the backdrop of the multi-billion dollar iron-ore industry and the rights of the people whose custodianship of the land reaches back thousands of years. As the title suggests it involves heavyweight characters. This is pertinent and important investigative journalism.
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