19 June, 2015

Indigneous mine fight on a tuneful world trip


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RMED with a didgeridoo and his personal convictions, Adrian Burragubba has been flying across the world urging executives at some of the world's best-known multinational banks not to fund Adani's $16 billion mega mine.

To financiers the Carmichael project is a mine to be built 160km north-west of Clermont in the coal-rich Galilee Basin of central Queensland.

But to Mr Burragubba, his niece Murrawah Johnson and the people they represent, the 400-strong Wangan and Jagalingou tribe, it is the ancestral land tied to them spiritually.

And they want the world to know it is not the Indian mining giant's to dig up.

Ms Johnson said while they were battling to protect Wangan and Jagalingou land, if the mine went ahead its impact on the environment would be global.

Read the story from Rockhampton’s The Morning Bulletin - “Round-the-world trip against Adani's Carmichael mine”.

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