Media: ‘Inside the fight to clean Wittenoom, WA's poisoned heart’ - Business News
Story by Tom Zaunmayr, Business News 03 November 2025
‘It is a balmy October evening in the shadow of Jarndunmunha, the rocky behemoth that towers over the Pilbara mining town of Tom Price. The arrival of darkness provides reprieve from the sticky heat of Muthangga, the build-up to the wet season.
The respectful silence that sits over the town’s drive-in theatre – one of the last in the state – is pierced by the unmistakable voice of a loved and lost community champion.
For one hour, those gathered watch late Banjima elder Maitland Parker on the big screen in Yurlu | Country, as he delivers an emotive call to arms to rid his country of its toxic wasteland.’
