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$700 million mining deal tears apart Aboriginal clans famous for their land rights struggle

A SECRET $700m deal; the most feared Aboriginal organisation in Australia; and a clan feud. This is the conflict tearing our land apart.

A BITTER row over an until-now secret $700m mining deal involving two of Australia’s pre-eminent Aboriginal clans is tearing part of our country asunder.

In a special report, News Corp Australia goes to the birthplace of land rights in this nation to reveal all is not well.

With Australia’s best-known tribal elder on one side and the clan that started the fight for land rights on the other, it is a burning issue of a deal gone wrong and a man who signed away his people’s rights without independent advice from a lawyer.

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Originally published as $700 million mining deal tears apart Aboriginal clans famous for their land rights struggle

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