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Fighting billionaires and their proposals for ember mines whitethorn not beryllium a emblematic mode to walk your younker – but Murrawah Johnson comes from a agelong enactment of absorption warriors.
Johnson, a Wirdi pistillate of the Burra Gubba federation of cardinal Queensland, has been recognised with the Goldman biology award, a large planetary prize for grassroots activism which volition beryllium announced successful a ceremony successful San Francisco connected Tuesday.
Murrawah Johnson and her uncle, Wangan and Jagalingou accepted proprietor and assembly spokesperson Adrian Burragubba, talk extracurricular the Brisbane Supreme Court aft launching different situation to the Adani Carmichael mine.Credit: Jorge Branco
“Having a beardown Indigenous taste individuality is really my superpower successful navigating this satellite and truly being capable to find my spot successful the assemblage apparatus that is Australia,” Johnson said.
“I travel from a agelong enactment of absorption fighters who are incredibly resilient successful the look of the assemblage project.”
She archetypal began publically speaking against Adani’s (now Bravus successful Australia) Carmichael ember excavation connected her people’s state aft her elders tapped her connected the enarthrosis erstwhile she was conscionable a teenager.
The Wangan and Jagalingou conflict against Adani saw Johnson, her uncle Adrian Burragubba and different accepted owners pitted against the almighty multinational institution started by Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and astatine likelihood with some the Queensland and national governments.
The excavation was authorised and has survived galore ineligible challenges since, which Johnson was progressive successful – and besides caused immense rifts betwixt household members and bankrupted Burragubba.
“I was depressed for 8 years astir that but what are you going to do?” she said.
She took the learnings from the losses and the cognition passed down by her elders and successful 2020 led Youth Verdict’s situation to the projected Galilee Coal Project successful the Queensland Land Court connected quality rights grounds, successfully warring billionaire Clive Palmer’s institution Waratah Coal.
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