Ben Abbatangelo
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92 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 23 May
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It needs to consider what the financial value of, you know, close to 250 sacred sites that have been destroyed, including rock art shelters that...
prove human habitation for more than 35,000 years.
It needs to put a numerical value on the cultural and familial ties that have been broken, many of which that are beyond repair.
They also have to decide how much of the $50 billion of iron ore profits that Fort Askew has churned out of the Yindyabani people's lands belong to them.
And then, probably additionally, start to consider how much of the profits
belong to the Injubandi people over the years ahead, knowing that Fortescue's Solomon mines still has plenty of great days of extracting iron ore ahead of it.
So, you know, are the courts best placed to determine what is the just and right and moral outcome?
Or can they purely just engage with this through a legal lens and try and come to a determination that,
But I know either way, when I speak to Michael Woodley, yes, there is some solace in the sense that they are getting towards an outcome and they will receive compensation.
But if everyone had their time over again, you know, Michael has said that he and many others in the community wish this just never happened in the first place.
Well, the community is, yeah, in other hearings, you know, the courts have heard how, you know, family members no longer talk to one another.
They avoid each other in the streets.
There's enduring, lasting pain that...
you know, may never heal.
It might take a generation to heal.
It's the destruction of really significant sacred sites that get to the heart of a people's belief system that gets to the heart of who they are.
So in that context, I don't know how you can put, yeah, a numerical monetary value on stripping people from the things that sustain them.
Michael is someone that just appears to defy gravity.
He is always smiling.
He is always calm.
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