<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> <div bgcolor="FFFEFF"> <div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Baskerville"><b>Unlawful FMG heritage dealing </b></div> <div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Baskerville"><b>& massive sites damage at Solomon Project </b></div> <div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Baskerville; min-height: 16.0px"><br></div> <div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Baskerville; color: #ff1314"><b>FULL STATEMENT:</b><span style="color: #d84413"><b> </b></span><b>ATTACHED</b></div> <div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Baskerville; min-height: 16.0px"><br></div> <div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Baskerville">The Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation (YAC) is calling on Federal Minister<span style="font: 14.0px 'Times New Roman'">,</span> Tony Burke, to invoke emergency powers to stop the destruction by Fortescue Metals Group (FMG) of Yindjibarndi sacred sites and ‘living heritage’ areas that date back thousands of years.</div> <div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16.0px"> </div> <div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Baskerville">YAC has received evidence showing FMG forced heritage consultants to change a heritage report about the significance of the area by threatening to withhold payments on their invoices.</div> <div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16.0px"> </div> <div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Baskerville">On 23 October YAC representatives travelled to FMG's Firetail lease (Solomon Project) to check on the safety of their sites, but were barred by FMG security guards for “safety reasons”, because a blasting program was under way. On 28 October Michael Woodley and other senior Yindjibarndi Lawmen took time out from <i>Birdarra</i> ceremonies to travel into the area, avoiding FMG checkpoints. To their horror they found the landscape mutilated and sites damaged.</div> <div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16.0px"> </div> <div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Baskerville">FMG’s conduct is a direct assault on the 40,000 year-old traditions and heritage of the Yindjibarndi people and contravenes the most fundamental international human rights covenants. These actions show FMG conduct to be unethical and in breech of the State Aboriginal Heritage Act.</div> <div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16.0px"> </div> <div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Baskerville">Mr Woodley said, “The world threw up its arms in horror when the Taliban blew up Buddhist statues in Afghanistan. How will Australia respond to desecration of our cultural sites that date back tens of thousands of years, right here, under their noses?”</div> <div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16.0px"><br></div> <div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Baskerville">This Wednesday 9 November, Mr Woodley will be seeking leave to directly address shareholders and investors at FMG’s AGM, to present evidence of their appalling conduct and to ask that the Fortescue board and executive be held to account, and ordered to abide by basic business ethics. </div> <div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Baskerville; min-height: 16.0px"><br></div> <div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Baskerville; color: #081e44">(FMG AGM Venue: Hyatt Regency Perth, 99 Adelaide Terrace, East Perth 11.00AM)</div> <div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16.0px"> </div> <div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Baskerville"><b>Primary documents, photos, video and maps available for download at:</b></div> <div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Baskerville; color: #2d2cfa"><span style="text-decoration: underline"><a href="http://ethreemail.com/e3ds/mail_link.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyindjibarndi.org.au%2Fyindjibarndi%2F%3Fp%3D2291&i=3&d=29U5709W-99V1-4XY8-ZUV0-59305876YW92&e=geert@xs4all.nl"><b>http://yindjibarndi.org.au/yindjibarndi/?p=2291</b></a></span></div> <div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Baskerville; min-height: 16.0px"><br></div> <div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Baskerville; color: #d84413"><b>For further information or to arrange interviews contact </b></div> <div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Baskerville"><b>Michael Woodley</b> – CEO YAC – 0419 097 130 <a href="mailto:mwoodley@juluwarlu.com.au"><span style="text-decoration: underline ; color: #2d2cfa">mwoodley@juluwarlu.com.au</span></a></div> <div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Baskerville"><b>Phil Davies</b> – Anthropologist YAC – 0429 110 451 <a href="mailto:pdavies@juluwarlu.com.au"><span style="text-decoration: underline ; color: #2d2cfa">pdavies@juluwarlu.com.au</span></a></div> <div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Baskerville">____________________________________________________________</div> <div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 5.0px 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 5.0px"> </div> <div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Baskerville; color: #d84413"><b>NEWS & INFORMATION ARCHIVE</b></div> <div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Baskerville"><b>Articles regarding Yindjibarndi and FMG </b></div> <div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Baskerville"><b>plus background & research: </b><a href="http://ethreemail.com/e3ds/mail_link.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyindjibarndi.org.au%2Fyindjibarndi%2F&i=0&d=29U5709W-99V1-4XY8-ZUV0-59305876YW92&e=geert@xs4all.nl"><b>http://yindjibarndi.org.au/yindjibarndi/</b></a></div> <div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Baskerville; min-height: 16.0px"><br></div> <div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Baskerville; color: #d84413"><b>FACEBOOK</b></div> <div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Baskerville"><a href="http://ethreemail.com/e3ds/mail_link.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyindjibarndi.org.au%2Ffacebook.html&i=1&d=29U5709W-99V1-4XY8-ZUV0-59305876YW92&e=geert@xs4all.nl"><b>http://yindjibarndi.org.au/facebook.html</b></a></div> <div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Baskerville; min-height: 17.0px"><b></b><br></div> <div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Baskerville; color: #2d2cfa"><span style="color: #000000"><b>SUBSCRIBE: </b><span style="text-decoration: underline ; color: #2d2cfa"><b><a href="http://ethreemail.com/e3ds/mail_link.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fethreemail.com%2Fsubscribe%3Fg%3D7cfea1c9&i=2&d=29U5709W-99V1-4XY8-ZUV0-59305876YW92&e=geert@xs4all.nl">http://ethreemail.com/subscribe?g=7cfe</a></b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b><a href="http://ethreemail.com/e3ds/mail_link.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fethreemail.com%2Fe3ds%2Funsubscribe%3Fg%3D934cb614%26e%3Dgeert%2540xs4all.nl&i=-1&d=29U5709W-99V1-4XY8-ZUV0-59305876YW92&e=geert@xs4all.nl">Unsubscribe</a></b></span></div></div></body></html>