"This is my country. Look, it's beautiful and I fear somebody will disturb it," he says, waving his arm across a view of rocky land surrounded by Kakadu National Park, where the French energy giant Areva wants to extract 14,000 tonnes of uranium worth more than $5 billion.
However, having a mind for the safety and preservation of historically, religiously significant areas and placing his beliefs and environment over his own personal wealth is an admirable decision.
Although not the last, it's certainly great to see genuinely good people who still care about the world nowadays. I mean, corporations and housing expansions are taking over so many nice rural areas.
kakadu national park is Australian, please come down here and take a look its a magnificient place; it has a unique feel - words can't describe it - and while you are down here you can buy a piece of the daintree