	Updated: March 03, 2010
Regions: Western Australia Campaigns: Kimberley Northern Australia

Kimberley at Crossroads – book available online now

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Former Federal Court judge Murray Wilcox QC has launched a book opposing a large industrial development on the Kimberley coast of Western Australia

Called, 'The Case Against The Gas Plant', the book is about the proposed development of a massive LNG gas plant which will use a site near Broome as its preferred processing location instead of piping to the already industrialised region of the Pilbara.

Launching the book in Sydney recently Judge Wilcox says Aboriginal people are being treated unfairly.

: Former Federal Court judge Murray Wilcox QC

"It's a funny situation isn't it, that Aboriginal people are expected to give up their cultural heritage for the sake of basic rights such as education and health. That isn't a rule that is applied to the rest of the population," he said. ..."I don't see why it should be applied to Aboriginal people."