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Bentinck Island's 'last people' fight for their homeland after a lifetime of dispossession

Amy Loogatha was born on a salt pan behind Nyinyilki on Bentinck Island.

As a child she lived as her people had for thousands of years — eating mullet and mangrove fruit, digging fresh water from swamps, and playing with shells and rocks on the beach while her parents went hunting.

When she was around seven years old, life changed forever.

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