Pilbara native title case: the fight to decide if Fortescue pays compensation to Indigenous owners

The Yindjibarndi people say WA and Andrew Forrest's mining company must pay for the destruction of sacred country and community

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In the heart of the Pilbara, two cultures and two systems of law have collided in the red dirt - and in a bitterly contested native title case being fought in the federal court.

To the Fortescue Metals Group - the mining company founded and chaired by billionaire Andrew Forrest - and the state of Western Australia, that red dirt means one thing: iron ore.

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