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Wangan and Jagalingou

June 2017

  • Wangan and Jagalingou people protest outside Queensland parliament in March 2015.

    Adani mine loses majority support of traditional owner representatives

    Wangan and Jagalingou representative who had backed an Indigenous land use agreement now says he opposes the mine

March 2017

  • haulage truck carrying bauxite

    Labor to support native title changes to protect mining deals

    Move angers traditional owners fighting Adani’s Carmichael mine, who accuse Labor of ‘lining up with the government’ and industry to wind back their rights

February 2017

  • Attorney-General George Brandis

    Coalition to change native title laws to protect mining and agriculture deals

    George Brandis announces bill to reverse court ruling that threw land use agreements thrown into doubt, including deal between Adani and Indigenous owners
  • Adrian Burragubba, spokesperson for the Wangan and Jagalingou (W&J) Traditional Owners'€™ Council, poses for photos outside the Federal Court in Brisbane, Monday, Nov. 23, 2015. W&J are challenging the decision of the National Native Title Tribunal, in an action brought by Adani, that the Queensland government may issue mining leases for Carmichael coal mine without the consent of the W&J people. (AAP Image/Dan Peled) NO ARCHIVING

    Government may change native title laws to uphold 'at-risk' mining deals

    Lawyer for Indigenous owners fighting Adani says Coalition’s claims a landmark federal court ruling left projects in doubt were ‘a beat-up’ aimed at nobbling his clients
  • Adrian Burragubba

    Indigenous owners threaten legal action unless Adani abandons land access deal

    Wangan and Jagalingou demand company withdraw its application to register a land use agreement that has been thrown into doubt by a landmark WA case

June 2015

  • Adrian Burragubba and Murrawah Johnson outside Standard Chartered after meeting bank representatives.

    Indigenous Australians call on Standard Chartered not to fund coal mine project

    Representatives from Wangan and Jagalingou people meet executives in London in push to persuade financiers to snub project on group’s ancestral land

May 2015

  • An Adani mine in India

    Adani overestimated Carmichael coalmine benefits, says Indigenous group

  • Adrian Burragubba of the Wangan and Jagalingou people (W&J) talks to Queensland's Speaker of the House Peter Wellington before presenting him with a Declaration of Defence of Country outside Parliament House in Brisbane, Thursday, March 26, 2015. The W&J people have announced that they have refused Indian conglomerate Adani and the QLD government a Land Use Agreement for the Carmichael coal mine, the biggest in Australian history, on their traditional lands.  (AAP Image/Dan Peled) NO ARCHIVING

    Adani denies executive admitted exaggerating mine job creation figures

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