The Goolarabooloo people have their own name for James Price Point: Walmadany. It’s a spectacular bit of country in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, with soil the colour of burnt orange, and sapphire blue waters. But Walmadany is also a site of contention, and Woodside Petroleum’s plans for a $45bn gas hub on the site were met by mass protests. While those plans were eventually abandoned in 2013, talk of drilling for liquified natural gas won’t go away. This is not the first time the remote and pristine Kimberley has resisted the intrusion of a mining company. In 1980, then WA premier Charles Court gave the nod to a 45-strong convoy of mining trucks and exploratory drilling in Noonkanbah, on the Fitzroy river. The convoy’s police escort had to clear a blockade of protesters that included traditional landowners.
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