THERE SHOULD BE NO EXTINGUISHMENT OF NATIVE TITLE WITHOUT OUR CONSENT On 22 December 2017 the Wangan and Jagalingou Traditional Owners Family Council wrote to – The QLD Premier, The Deputy Premier, Treasurer and Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships, and The Minister for Natural Resources, Mines and Energy The W&J Council received its […]
Media Release Court order against Qld Government preventing native title extinguishment Injunction hearing set for 30 January 2018, trial in March Brisbane, 19 December 2017. Wangan and Jagalingou (W&J) representatives, seeking to prevent the extinguishment of their native title by the Queensland Government for Adani, have ensured that there will be no surrender of lands […]
Friends, This is urgent! The Queensland Government is ready to extinguish our Native Title rights. Adani is trying to push through an illegitimate land use agreement and extinguish our native title. We have a Federal Court case to challenge it it March, and have filed for an injunction to prevent them moving to have […]
Media Release Brisbane, 8 December 2017. Traditional Owners of the Wangan and Jagalingou (W&J) Traditional Owners Family Council say they are troubled by the decision of the National Native Title Tribunal (NNTT) to register an Indigenous Land Use Agreement (ILUA) for Adani before a legal challenge to the ILUA scheduled for March 2018 can be […]
Media Release Traditional Owners fighting Adani make demands of new Labor Govt New Queensland polling released showing support for mine delay Brisbane, 8 December 2017. With the announcement of a new majority Qld Labor government, and with the National Native Title Tribunal set to decide today whether to register Adani’s sham Indigenous Land […]
~ Claim group reject ILUA for the fourth and final time ~ Injunction filed against Adani and Qld Govt Brisbane, 3 December 2017. For the fourth time since 2012, W&J Traditional Owners have voted unanimously at an authorisation meeting to reject an Indigenous Land Use Agreement (ILUA) with Adani, underlining their sustained opposition to the […]
5 October 2017 Mayor Strelow misrepresents Wangan and Jagalingou Rockhampton Mayor Margaret Strelow’s ‘thanks’ to the the Wangan and Jagalingou people for ‘our support’ is disingenuous and clearly misrepresents the position of the Traditional Owners of the proposed Carmichael mine area. We do not support a FIFO (fly in fly out) hub that allows […]
The Queensland State continues to authorise dispossession Responding to a Federal Court decision today, in one of the long running cases bought by Traditional Owners against the Adani mine, the Wangan and Jagalingou Traditional Owners expressed their profound frustration with the way the native title and court processes have over-ridden their decision to reject an […]
“Where there’s mining there is no justice” Responding to a Supreme Court decision in Brisbane today, Traditional Owners fighting Adani’s proposed Carmichael coal mine say that yet again the Queensland Government and Adani have benefited from laws designed to suppress Aboriginal peoples’ rights. The Queensland Court of Appeal today upheld an earlier decision that the […]
W&J Submission to Senate Economics References Committee inquiry into the governance and operation of the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (NAIF) 28 July 2017 Wangan and Jagalingou (W&J) are the Indigenous Traditional Owners of a vast area of land in central-western Queensland. We are the first people and our country – Wangan and Jagalingou country […]
