00:02In court, and on country, mixed emotions.
00:08It makes me very emotional in it, talking about it.
00:12In terms of what we kind of was expecting to what we were kind of given.
00:19In Jibandi, representatives came to the Federal Court in Perth with optimism
00:23their $1.8 billion compensation claim would be accepted.
00:27Those who couldn't make the 1,500-kilometre journey watched on from Roburn.
00:33Justice Stephen Burley finding Andrew Forrest Fortescue liable for cultural and economic losses,
00:38ordering compensation payments of $150 million for cultural and $100,000 for economic,
00:45for mining the In Jibandi people's land without permission.
00:49It's the largest such compensation payment in Australia's history,
00:52but just a fraction of what the In Jibandi people say was needed to make up for the hurt
00:57which Fortescue has caused.
01:00They dig our land and everything.
01:02What more they want?
01:04Put us in an early grave like from our elders?
01:08They need to look at us.
01:10We don't get this far and stop, right?
01:12So we'll review it, we're fighters, we've been fighting all our lives, right?
01:16And I think the recognition needs to sort of stand firm that this is our country.
01:23In a statement, Fortescue said Andrew Forrest and the company care deeply about all First Nations people,
01:29including the In Jibandi community.
01:31The details of Justice Stephen Burley's full judgement and whether or not it will be appealed are still up in
01:38the air.
01:38But the In Jibandi Nara Aboriginal Corporation says at the very least the importance of their cultural heritage has been
01:45recognised.
01:46The entire First Nations of this country is watching us today.
01:50A judgement on how much value Australia's law places on cultural heritage and its destruction.
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