Wangan & Jagalingou People | Federal Resources Minister, Senator Matt Canavan, is misrepresenting Wangan and Jagalingou people again

11.5.17

Wangan & Jagalingou People | Federal Resources Minister, Senator Matt Canavan, is misrepresenting Wangan and Jagalingou people again: Adani didn’t ‘negotiate’ and achieve the free prior informed consent of the W&J people. The meeting, that all these barrackers for Adani’s mine cite, that seemingly voting 294 to 1, is only ‘a vote for the mine’ if it’s a true expression of the W&J traditional owners. But it’s not.

Over 220 of that meeting’s attendees are people who have never been involved in the W&J claim or decision making, and who are identified with other nations and claims, or didn’t identify an apical decent line.

They were bussed in and paid for at Adani’s considerable expense. The ‘natural majority’ of the claim group, who have three times rejected an ILUA with Adani, refused to participate in this stitch up of a meeting. They stayed away.