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Title fight : how the Yindjibarndi battled and defeated a mining giant / Paul Cleary.

Title fight : how the Yindjibarndi battled and defeated a mining giant / Paul Cleary.
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ISBN 9781760642846
Author Cleary, Paul, 1964- (author)
Title Title fight : how the Yindjibarndi battled and defeated a mining giant / Paul Cleary.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Carlton, VIC : Black Inc, ©2021.
©2021.
Description xxv, 262 pages : illustrations, maps, 1 portrait ; 24 cm.
Note "A mining magnate. A community divided. A leader who refused to give up"--Cover.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary In the space of just fifteen years, Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest's Fortescue Metals Group has built a global iron-ore giant generating 19 billion in revenue a year. But in its rush to develop, FMG has damaged and destroyed ancient Aboriginal heritage and brokered patently unfair agreements with the traditional owners of the land. When FMG has met resistance, it has used 'tough and savage' litigation to secure a lucrative outcome. But this strategy came unstuck when FMG encountered a few hundred Yindjibarndi people and their leader, Michael Woodley, who left school in Grade Six and was from then on immersed in his traditional culture. Woodley has led his community in an epic, thirteen-year battle against FMG, all on a shoestring budget. Clear-eyed and humane, Title Fight reveals the Wild West of iron-ore mining in the Pilbara. It tells the story of how a small group of Indigenous Australians fought tenaciously to defend their spiritual connection to country. And, at a moment of national reckoning with our colonial and ancient past, with our relationship to the land, it asks some critical questions- Who does the land belong to? Who gets to choose what it's used for? And whose side are we on?
Subjects Forrest, Andrew
Woodley, Michael
Fortescue Metals Group
Fortescue Metals Group Ltd
Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions
Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure -- Law and legislation
Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure
Aboriginal Australians -- Mines and mining
Aboriginal Australians -- Mines and mining -- Law and legislation
Aboriginal Australians -- Western Australia -- Pilbara
Iron mines and mining -- Western Australia
Iron ores -- Western Australia
Mining corporations -- Australia
Native title (Australia)
Land tenure -- Government policy -- Australia
Mining leases -- Western Australia
Yindjibarndi (Australian people)
Western Australia -- Pilbara
Call number 2021.240
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A00947330 2021.240
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