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A panoramic yet intimate portrait of Aboriginal Elder Maitland Parker and his fight to heal his mining-impacted homeland | dG1fdTRYMGFTZXFKZHM
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00:00It's the worst contaminated site in the Southern Hemisphere.
00:24All this rubbish, all the tailings.
00:28I've got yours right now.
00:37If you measure this tumour here, it's double the amount that it was before.
00:44How big is the exclusion then?
00:46It's something like 46,000 hectares.
00:49I've made it my business to do it, to take this fight on to the state government.
00:53We've got to be extra careful with the younger ones.
01:02Early diagnosis is better than a late diagnosis.
01:05There's no action planned to remediate.
01:09Traditional owners still not being able to access their country.
01:12Something needs to be done.
01:14The house is all fenced off.
01:18Mum's standing there with Sister Marjorie, where she actually was born.
01:22The birthing tree.
01:23Old man and we can't go back.
01:25A lot of people buried there.
01:27I have a role to play here to make sure I advocate for my people.
01:41The tailings continually being spread by wind and by water.
01:46Poison country, I also say.
01:56You
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