"It's traumatising": Adani's Australian coal unit faces human rights complaint from Aboriginal group

Record ID: 1858252

  • Title: "It's traumatising": Adani's Australian coal unit faces human rights complaint from Aboriginal group
  • Date: 23rd November 2024
  • Summary: NEWCASTLE, AUSTRALIA (NOVEMBER 23, 2024) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) NAGANA YARRBAYN SENIOR CULTURAL CUSTODIAN ADRIAN BURRAGUBBA, SAYING: "So they continually keep calling me a fossil fuel activist and I'm not a fossil fuel activist. I'm First Nation, Indigenous person that has rights, that has cultural rights to our country and we under the Queensland Human Rights Act
  • Embargoed: 7th December 2024 03:49
  • Keywords: Adani Adrian Burragubba Australia Carmichael coal mine Queensland coal human rights mining
  • Location: NEWCASTLE, CARMICHAEL MINE GREENFIELD SITE, ABBOT POINT PORT, CLERMONT TOWN, AUSTRALIA
  • City: NEWCASTLE, CARMICHAEL MINE GREENFIELD SITE, ABBOT POINT PORT, CLERMONT TOWN, AUSTRALIA
  • Country: Australia
  • Topics: Asia / Pacific,Crime/Law/Justice
  • Reuters ID: LVA002190123112024RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: India's Adani Group, whose billionaire chairman has been indicted for fraud by U.S. prosecutors, is facing accusations of racism at its Australian coal unit after an Aboriginal group filed a complaint with the country's Human Rights Commission.
    The Nagana Yarrbayn Wangan & Jagalingou Cultural Custodians in Queensland state said it filed a complaint alleging serious racial discrimination by the unit, Bravus Mining and Resources, earlier this week.
    The complaint details how Adani employees sought to obstruct and prevent members of the Aboriginal group from accessing springs near Adani's Carmichael coal mine in order to perform cultural rites and share cultural knowledge.
    "It's hurtful, devastating, it's humiliating and it's effecting my family and extended family, my kids and they are fearful of going back out there for fear of retribution or being accosted again by mining company people who behave in the threatening manner, you know. And it's just awful, you have this in the back of your mind and it's traumatising," Nagana Yarrbayn Senior Cultural Custodian, Adrian Burragubba told Reuters via Zoom on Saturday (November 23).
    The Carmichael coal mine battled a seven-year campaign from climate activists and some Aboriginal groups before shipping its first cargo in December 2021.
    Adani Group companies' shares fell for a second straight day on Friday (November 22) after U.S. prosecutors charged chairman Gautam Adani in an alleged bribery and fraud scheme.
    (Production: Stefica Nicol Bikes)
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