Ben Abbatangelo

Mar 7, 2025 | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Ben Abbatangelo |Rachel Hoffman

This is a story about a former Australian foreign affairs minister, a China-linked resources company and a uranium deposit in Greenland. It is a story about lobbying, foreign power and the expectations of politicians once they leave office. The Melbourne-based Energy Transition Minerals (ETM) was already suing Greenland to exploit its uranium when it announced Julie Bishop had been hired as a strategic adviser on the controversial Kvanefjeld rare earth element project.

Nov 15, 2024 | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Ben Abbatangelo

There is a spirit of togetherness as the sun slowly sets on Wadeye’s Yidiyi Festival in the Northern Territory. For three days, the community has celebrated with a football carnival, live music and vivid cultural immersion. Now, the Lirrga and Tchanba ceremonial groups, led by the older men and women, interchangeably perform age-old stories to a transfixed crowd.

Oct 18, 2024 | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Ben Abbatangelo

Uncle Roger “Pigeon” Jarrett vividly remembers seeing a big black English Riley rolling onto the Bowraville mission. His mother had long anguished over the day the welfare board would steal her children. On June 25, 1958, that day arrived. “They sat Mum down on the verandah out the front of her house and said, ‘Mrs Jarrett, if you sign these papers, your kids will return within 12 months.’ ”Faced with an ultimatum, and with no formal education, Mrs Jarrett signed the papers.

Jul 23, 2024 | themonthly.com.au | Ruby Jones |Ben Abbatangelo

[Theme music starts]##RUBY:From Schwartz Media, I’m Ruby Jones. This is *7am*. On a remote island in the Gulf of Carpentaria there are two towns. One is home to a thriving economy. It has a golf course, cinema and tennis courts. It’s the richest postcode in the Northern Territory, most of the people who live there are white. The other is home to the Anindilyakwa people - the traditional custodians. The locals live just a few hundred metres from the world’s largest manganese mine.

Jul 19, 2024 | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Ben Abbatangelo |Rachel Hoffman

The National Indigenous Australians Agency has referred the chief executive of the Anindilyakwa Land Council to the National Anti-Corruption Commission over a plan to take a 10 per cent personal stake in a multimillion-dollar mining project connected to the land council. The referral comes in the wake of a scathing report from the national audit office and an investigation by the agency’s integrity body.