A divided community weighs up whether to protect aboriginal lands or opt for $1.3 billion in compensation.
Controversy over a proposed gas hub in the remote Kimberley region of Western Australia has split the old pearling town of Broome, and is threatening to balloon into a national political issue.
The headland in question, James Price Point (JPP) pokes into the Indian Ocean some 50 kilometres from Broome. The State government has proposed it be used for a $40-billion facility to liquefy natural gas pumped from offshore fields.
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