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24.01.2022 Murrawah Johnson of W&J Council cut short by @Siemens at the shareholders AGM. No consent from traditional landowners for Adani Carmichael mine. https://youtu.be/lmTZUJk1DbY

23.01.2022 "If they destroy our country, they will destroy us as a people". Murrawah Johnson Murrawah Johnson spoke at the # Siemens AGM yesterday to represent W&J Council. In an interview with @bento_de, she explains why she accuses Joe Kaeser of disregarding indigenous rights. Indigenous protests against Siemens ...Continue reading

18.01.2022 Marsh's response, to the intense pressure on them to abandon their insurance brokering for Adani's mine, was to announce a set of ‘Client engagement principles’ at their AGM. According to a Market Forces report, the 183-word statement "is not a climate policy, it is greenwash". >https://www.marketforces.org.au/marsh-mclennan-present-gre/ Market Forces note that rather than answer the several questions that had been submitted, Marsh President and CEO Dan Glaser "pointed peopl...e to MMC’s new principles and then quickly moved on". Tellingly, one of those the questions that was ignored by Mr Glaser was from W&J representative Murrawah Johnson. Murrawah had joined the meeting as a shareholder proxy to ask Marsh to withdraw as the insurance broker for Adani Mining in Australia.

14.01.2022 Watch Wangan and Jagalingou cultural leader and spokesperson, Adrian Burragubba, speaking at RMIT's Activism at the Margins conference on 10 February 2020, at Capitol Theatre, Melbourne.

13.01.2022 Breaking: Murrawah will ask Marsh and McLennan at their AGM (at midnight tonight Australian time) to withdraw as the insurance broker for the Adani mine. She will tell the company that we never gave our Free, Prior, Informed Consent to the Adani mine; that our international law rights have been breached; and that the mine will further dispossess us from our Country, deny us our human rights and accelerate climate change. @MarshGlobal is publicly committed to abide by internat...ional human rights principles. They say that "water is essential to life" and that access to this critical natural resource is "a fundamental human right". Our rights are being violated, and the essential sources of water in our land will be destroyed by the Carmichael mine. Marsh will stand complicit if it proceeds to work to secure insurance for Adani. Marsh must ditch Adani.

13.01.2022 This is the speech Murrawah prepared to give to the Siemens AG annual shareholders’ meeting in Munich. But Siemens cut her time and made sure she could not deliver it personally it was only allowed to be read through a translator. Siemens have refused to acknowledge our rights and the damage being done to our people and country because, they say, we are "not legally recognised as an official advocacy group". Siemens have now cast their lot in with the Adani corporation, a ...serial abuser of Indigenous peoples rights. Our Council and other First Nations will not be duped. We know who the corporations and governments are that deny us our rights. We know the tricks of the trade that are plied to silence us and gain our so-called ‘agreement’. Siemens can’t convince us they care about our people, but they are trying to convince others who may judge them harshly for profiting from the denial of our rights. We must maintain the pressure on them. Keep emailing the CEO at [email protected], censuring Siemens for its lazy morals, its breach of human rights and its complicity in the destruction of our country and sacred places. Ask them to change their stance and meet with us and hear the true story of W&J First Nations resistance, not the convenient cover given to them by Adani and ex-Resources Minister Matt Canavan. Read the speech here...

11.01.2022 In an uncontested decision in the Queensland Supreme Court, Adani achieved its goal of banning Traditional Owners from parts of their ancestral lands. Adrian Burragubba, his son Coedie McAvoy, and members of the W&J Council are prevented from entering the area over which the State Government extinguished native title and handed it as freehold to the mining corporation for the Carmichael mine infrastructure. Adrian Burragubba, who faces imprisonment if he enters the area where... a ceremonial site is established to honour the ancestors and the land that is facing destruction, says it’s just more of the same dishonesty from Adani. He says he and others with rights in the land were in prior occupation of the area they are now excluded from, which was Unallocated State Land before the Government changed the tenure to freehold and gave it to Adani, making them trespassers in their own land...

10.01.2022 More of the same from Adani. Adrian Burragubba says: "This move by Adani simply continues the injustice against us. Adani had already secured its legal entitlements against my rights and interests. But they continue their vindictiveness, and spying on us, because we refuse to concede. This is just the latest stand-off in our battle with Adani. "We did not engage in this legal process because the rules were already set against us. ... "We did not enter the land as trespassers. The State Government extinguished our native title on Unallocated State Land and handed it to Adani. We were camped and holding ceremonies in our country. We have not returned to our ceremonial site since Adani's security confronted us. "We know their mine and their licenses lack legitimacy in the face of our rights, and as Aboriginal people we have always known that. That it is made legal to destroy our country and our way of life, and bar us from access to our sites, doesn't make it just. Adani relies on draconian laws, that benefit the State and corporations, to control us and take away our rights. "But I have an inalienable right to my culture and the lands of my ancestors. I will always be connected to my Country, and speak for it. I'm not a trespasser on my own land and never will be. It is still my land. And that fact derives from a law much older than the legal instruments that Adani wields."

10.01.2022 THOUSANDS DEMAND JUSTICE AT BRISBANE RALLY Australian Associated Press > https://yhoo.it/2MvEH8i < Thousands of people have flocked to inner-city Brisbane to protest police brutality against indigenous Australians and call for justice for those who have died in custody.... Speakers, including elders, traditional owners and African Australians, detailed police brutality against members of their own families and racism they had experienced. "We rise together and we speak in one voice against racism ... and legislation that takes away our freedom in this country ... our right to have a voice, our right to be free," Wangan and Jagalingou man Adrian Burragubba said. Cheers and applause echoed through the streets as he called for justice and government-funded trauma support for families whose loved ones die in custody. "While our people are dying in custody, our voice has gotta become louder, become a roar," he said. Mark Doyle

10.01.2022 Murrawah spoke to JJJ's Hack about W&J support for EDO's landmark court case. The legal challenge by Youth Verdict against Clive Palmer's Waratah Coal argues that the project furthers climate change and infringes human rights.

08.01.2022 The Environmental Defenders Office has launched a landmark legal case challenging Clive Palmer’s proposed coal mine in the Galilee Basin. For the first time, an Australian coal mine is being challenged on human rights and climate grounds. W&J spokesperson Murrawah Johnson says: "It is extremely important that this Environmental Defenders case against Clive Palmer’s Waratah coal mine be run, and we support this action. This is a chance for the courts to step up where governments so often fail. Mines are imposed upon us and we are denied our right to say no." Read our supporting statement here > https://wanganjagalingou.com.au/wj-support-for-human-right/

03.01.2022 ABC Radio: "It's been revealed mining giant Adani tracked the social media of two Aboriginal men to gather evidence to have them permanently banned from its central Queensland mine site. They face jail if they return to their traditional lands. "Supreme Court judge David Boddice relied on evidence from Adani, which detailed in court documents using online monitoring tools to check the men's social media accounts twice a day. It used a private investigator to serve legal material on the men via private Facebook messages."