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Title Fight

Name: Title Fight
ISBN: 9781743821961

How the Yindjibarndi Battled and Defeated a Mining Giant

Paul Cleary,

320 pages
English
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eBook - ePub

Title Fight

How the Yindjibarndi Battled and Defeated a Mining Giant

Paul Cleary,

About this book

A David-and-Goliath story set in the ancient landscape of the Pilbara

In the space of just fifteen years, Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest's Fortescue Metals Group has become a global iron-ore giant worth $70 billion. 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 hard-nosed litigation in pursuit of favourable outcomes.

This strategy came unstuck when FMG encountered several 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?

'Hugely relevant … Title Fight is forensically researched and absolutely captivating.' —Jack Latimore, The Age

'People should buy this book … few Australians know about this. It's a solid read. Shocking, even.' —Professor Megan Davis

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