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Yindjibarndi people win $150m compensation after Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue mines built without permission
ABC News, Andrea Mayes, Mietta Adams, Alistair Bates, 12 May 2026
Justice Stephen Burley has ordered $150 million be paid to the Yindjibarndi Ngurra Aboriginal Corporation for cultural loss, and $100,000 for economic loss.
It’s the biggest native title compensation payout ever awarded in Australia.
Traditional owners from Western Australia’s remote north have been awarded $150.1 million in compensation after mining magnate Andrew Forrest’s company dug up hundreds of millions of tonnes of iron ore from their lands without their permission.
It is the biggest native title pay-out ever awarded in Australian history and culminates an almost two-decades-long legal battle between the Yindjibarndi people and Mr Forrest’s Fortescue mining company.
But elders have already expressed their disappointment with the decision, with one describing the payout as “peanuts” when compared to the billions that Fortescue has made from its lucrative Solomon Hub mines that were built on Yindjibarndi land.