Friends, Adani has sunk to a new low, setting a brutal new standard for corporate behaviour. For the first time in Australia’s history, a company has bankrupted an Aboriginal leader for standing up for the inalienable rights of First Nations people to our law, our country and our culture. We must mount a defence of […]
STATEMENT Tuesday 5 February 2019 Minister Matt Canavan running a protection racket for Adani, takes cheap shots at the United Nations FOR DAYS we’ve been entertained by the spectacle of Resources Minister Matt Canavan running a protection racket for Adani, while taking cheap shots at the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. A letter […]
The Path of resistance First Nations solidarity and the Wangan & Jagalingou Traditional Owners’ fight for their future PUBLIC EVENT 6:30 Pm to 8:00 PM, 16th JULY 2018 State Library of Queensland, Auditorium 1, Level 2, Stanley Place, South Brisbane This public event is hosted by the Wangan and Jagalingou Traditional Owners Council […]
Wangan and Jagalingou law and order By Adrian Burragubba Published as the Prologue to The Coal Truth: The fight to stop Adani, defeat the big polluters and reclaim our democracy, by David Ritter. June 2018 I AM A WANGAN AND JAGALINGOU PERSON. I learnt the ways of my people from my father and my older […]
25th March 2018 While we were in the courtroom on 12 – 14 March, fighting the State of Queensland, Adani Mining, and Qld South Native Title Services (QSNTS), the Queensland Premier authorised an email that was sent to many of our supporters. The Queensland Premier’s response studiously avoided our key demands. That is: Acknowledge that Adani […]
Wangan & Jagalingou Traditional Owners Council STATEMENT Delivered at Speakers Corner, Qld Parliament House Brisbane, Thursday 8th March 2018 It’s time the Queensland Government stood up for our rights. We are determined to prevent our land being taken without our consent and to protect our Country and sacred places from destruction. We have never […]
W&J COUNCIL STATEMENT Lifting of injunction Adani’s duplicity After nearly two months of an interim injunction, and only a few weeks away from the trial brought by W&J applicants to argue the invalidity of the “Adani ILUA”, the court order that had restrained Adani from seeking, and the State of Queensland from acting on, the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
