'We've had enough': Traditional owners have waited more than 60 years for deadly asbestos to be removed from this ghost town The land of the Banjima people is still scarred by mountains of asbestos tailings left by historic mines near the ghost town of Wittenoom. They are calling for urgent action.

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Successive governments and regulators appear totally impotent in forcing miners to fulfill their restorative and compensative obligations....why?

#Wittenoon #Banjima #Hancock #Rinehart #JamesHardie #CSR

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The family legacy Gina Rinehart would like to forget The Hancock family's mining empire did not originate with Lang Hancock's fabled discovery of iron-red cliffs in the Pilbara in 1952 – it started with asbestos.

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The Hancock family wealth appears to have started at #Wittenoom yet many still waiting to see the rehabilitation of the mine and/or financial recognition of the suffering caused to workers and local communities incl #Banjima.

#Hancock #Rinehart #JamesHardie #CSR

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YURLU | COUNTRY will have its World Premiere 7 June at @sydfilmfest — a powerful documentary revealing Australia’s Chernobyl-scale disaster and an Aboriginal Elder’s fight to heal ‘Poison Country’ #CleanUpWittenoom #Banjima #Sydfilmfest

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“The Banjima native title holders told the Western Australian government in April they did not want any of the sites to be damaged, saying the “impending harm” to the area “is a further significant cumulative loss to the cultural values of the #Banjima..” https://dir.lat/FT1uUK

#BHP released a statement clarifying that it had no plans to destroy the sites without further consultation with the traditional owners of the land, the #Banjima people.

'Under section 18 of the Western Australian Aboriginal Heritage Act, the traditional owners–in this case the #Banjima people–are unable to lodge objections or to prevent their sacred sites from being...