A Man Without a Price Tag

I'm sure you're familiar with the scene - the villain of the movie face-to-face with the good guy, telling him that everyone has their price; insisting that everyone can be bought. There needs to be a new movie made now, one that will show 36-year-old Jeffrey Lee confronting the villain, in this case Areva, the French energy giant. Areva wants to extract 14,000 tonnes of uranium from the Koongarra deposit, sitting on land surrounded by Australia's Kakadu National Park,which is listed as a heritage site under the United Nations' Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
As the sole surviving member of the Djok Clan, Lee is regarded as the one traditional owner of the land holding the deposit, and the government has declared that no new mines would be allowed without the approval of the traditional owners. Lee does not approve. He wants to see the land incorporated into the Park so that it would be forever protected from those who see it only as a place to make megabucks, rather than as a place of great beauty and sacred sites, like Lee was taught to do by his grandmother.
Lee had decided to request the land's inclusion in the park so that it can never be mined because he regards it as his duty to look after the sacred sites, burial sites and other special places the land holds. Says Lee, "I'm not interested in white people offering me this or that … it doesn't mean a thing. I'm not interested in money."
Lee is a man who should be introduced in classrooms all across the world as a man to respect and emulate, a man our children would do well to think of as a role model. This man of ideals truly is a man without a price tag.