Western Australia: WA Heritage Crisis Deepens - FMG Threatens To Sue State

Western Australia: WA Heritage Crisis Deepens - FMG Threatens To Sue State   The Yindjibarndi People have been battling for 4 years against an increasingly belligerent, litigious, and unscrupulous Fortescue Metals Group (FMG).   On 28 October, at FMG’s Solomon Project in the Pilbara, the Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation (YAC) discovered that FMG had desecrated an ochre quarry and destroyed part of a creek where sacred Gandi are found (stones used in initiation rituals). The WA Department of...

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