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The **Yakka Munga Blockade** was a [picket](Picketing "wikilink") by
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[Aboriginal Australians](Aboriginal_Australians "wikilink") in
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[2019](Timeline_of_Libertarian_Socialism_in_Oceania "wikilink") to stop
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the destruction of cultural sites from land-clearing on a
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[Chinese-owned](China "wikilink") cattle station in the Kimberley,
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[Western Australia](Australia "wikilink").
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## Background
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Aboriginal Australians had been pretty brutally treated by the colonial
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government of the [British Empire](British_Empire "wikilink"), stealing
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and enclosing aboriginal land and wiping out 98% of the population.
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After Australia's independence in 1901, there were apartheid-esque
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conditions for aboriginals (many also being pushed into slavery and/or
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massacred by police) but even after the aboriginal rights movement, they
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still face a lot of discrimination, being vilified or fetished in white
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Australian culture, harassed by police and abused by corporations for
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cheap labour.
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The Yakka Munga site contained several sacred aboriginal artifacts and
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had been sold off to Chinese investors as a cattle site (harming the
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region ecologically), land clearing (of 24km by 50 meters) had been
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destroying some of the few sacred sites left and the company acted
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without the consent of the aboriginal land council.\[1\]
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## Events
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Aboriginal protesters physically blocked the site in a picket, stopping
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trucks carrying workers from entering.\[2\]
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## Results
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The Western Australian Department of Water and Environmental Regulation
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issued a stop work order to the company, the campaign was thus
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successful.\[3\]
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## References
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<references />
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1. [Yakka Munga station blockaded by protesters in fight to protect
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Kimberley
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land](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-19/yakka-munga-station-blockaded-by-protesters/11221424)
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- ABC Australia
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3. [WA Government issues Chinese company a stop-work order over
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Kimberley land
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clearing](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-21/wa-government-issues-chinese-company-a-stop-work-order-over-kim/11231758)
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- ABC Australia |