Ben Abbatangelo
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92 appearances
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first heard May 2026
last heard 23 May
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So Yindjibandi Country is located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
It is a very humble town with a big heart.
It has got majestic hills and escarpments that are rich red colours.
It's incredibly vast, like the whole of Western Australia, but the Pilbara region itself is...
quite an expansive space.
And in my mind, it gets to the heart of the Australian story.
It is a region that archives some of the earliest human thoughts.
There is countless sites that map human occupation back 10, 20, 30, 40, 50,000 years.
But at the same time, what's interfacing with that is the
everything that we understand to be contemporary.
It is the epicentre of resource extraction.
It is where, you know, the majority of the world's iron ore is extracted from.
There is offshore gas being plundered out of the waterways.
And it gets to, I suppose, the heart of that ancient eternity clashing with the contemporary realities of modernity.
So I first met Michael Woodley towards the end of 2020.
He's a senior Yindji Bandi lawman and the CEO of the Yindji Bandi Aboriginal Corporation, which is the prescribed body corporate to represent the interests of the Yindji Bandi people.
Mate, it's so good to reconnect and it's just been a privilege to, yeah, you're just a remarkable man.
He was zigzagging around town, was fortunate enough to get some of his time to hear about, you know, his reflections.
And I say this because for most Australians that are aware of who he is, he's known because he's been the person that has stood up to Andrew Forrest.
So Andrew Forrest is, I think he's held up in the Australian imagination as, you know, a great Australian bloke.
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