“During the 90’s, Netta and her sister Olive Loogatha were members of the Carpentaria Land Council, passionately fighting for native title for the Wellesley Islands clan groups.  The Loogatha sisters feared the pollution of their homelands and sea by mining companies in the gulf; they were particularly fearful of the plan to install a cyclone mooring on a very sacred site in the sea beside their islands. On the 24^th of November, 1999, around 9.30am, Netta stood waiting at Nyinkilki main base, Bentinck Island.   A thunderstorm was coming over, and Netta’s attempts to contact coordinators to cancel her attendance at the meeting that day were unsuccessful.  Around 9.30am, she stood outside listening to the Cessna aircraft flying, although she couldn’t see it, she wondered why the aircraft sounded different to other times.  The plane didn’t land on Bentinck, and Netta hoped that her baby sister Olive didn’t go on the plane, as the weather had suddenly become bad, and they didn’t like going to meetings without each other. Later that evening, Netta was told that her sister’s plane did not make the meeting, nor did they land anywhere that day. Many years later, it was discovered that the aircraft carrying her sister Olive, along with other family members from the Lardil and Yangkaal people and pilot, had crashed into the sea, in the same area as the cyclone mooring was to be located; the sacred story place for Kaiadilt people and Thuwathu (Rainbow Serpent).”