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  • proper noun An indigenous Australian people of Western Australia.
  • proper noun The Pama-Nyungan language this people speaks, with fewer than 700 native speakers.

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Examples

  • Yindjibarndi landowners and the company have been locked in negotiations for four years.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

  • The comment came in the midst of a dispute with the Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation YAC over Fortescue's rights to mine iron ore on their traditional lands.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

  • The mining magnate wants to develop Solomon Hub, 200 kilometres south of Roebourne on the northwest coast of WA, which lies on Yindjibarndi land.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

  • But Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation head Michael Woodley said the royalties deal must be uncapped.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

  • The mining magnate wants to develop Solomon Hub, 200 kilometres south of Roebourne on the northwest coast of WA, which lies on Yindjibarndi land.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

  • But Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation head Michael Woodley said the royalties deal must be uncapped.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

  • But no agreement has been reached and Yindjibarndi CEO Michael Woodley says the FMG offer is totally inadequate for loss of country.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

  • Mr Woodley said today that FMG was trying to convince a minority Yindjibarndi breakaway group to "sign away all rights to our country".

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

  • Mr Forrest's Fortescue Metals Group FMG has been trying to cut a deal with the Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation since 2007 to develop its Solomon Hub project, about 200km south of Roebourne.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

  • Yindjibarndi landowners and the company have been locked in negotiations for four years.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

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