Their home is their castle Graham French has won a battle for his farm. A SOUTH Australian family has defeated the Federal Government in a court battle reminiscent of hit movie The Castle - and can now stay on their land. The previous Labor Government wanted to compulsorily acquire the French family's farm, Corunna Station, and took the battle to court. The Federal Court blocked the move, which was part of a plan to expand the Cultana weapons training area - but in a twist, Defence was then going to hand back much of the land to the traditional owners, the Barngala, as compensation for originally taking their land. The former Government appealed the Federal Court's decision, so the farming family again faced losing their 576sq/km property. Graham French said he was disgusted at the appeal decision. "My family's been in this business 100 years, so it's 100 years of heritage gone," he said at the time. Today, though, he can crack the champagne and let the kids dig as many holes as they like. Family patriarch Graham French and his son Brenton and wife Jo-anne. Picture: Dean Martin Federal Member for Grey Rowan Ramsey, who has fought successive governments on the issue, said this afternoon that the Commonwealth won't go ahead with the appeal. "The withdrawal of the appeal means the ruling by Justice Basanko of the Federal Court will stand and that in essence said it was unlawful for the Department of Defence to compulsorily acquire the French family's property near Iron Knob only to turn around and give 80 per cent of it to a third party, in this case the Barngala people," he said.