Fortescue’s $150 million native title obligation is chump change compared with the wealth Andrew Forrest has made on Yindjibarndi lands. He will feel no punishment.
The lesson from Fortescue’s two-decade dispute with the Yindjibarndi people is that miners are better off seeking forgiveness from wronged native titleholders than permission.
It’s a sad truth that few will want to acknowledge following Tuesday’s Federal Court order for Fortescue to pay $150.1 million in compensation to the Yindjibarndi for mining on their ancestral lands without consent.
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