Dear Sir, Thank you very much for the update.
We in Goa support the people of Australia in their fight to protect their lands from the evil-schemes of Adani from Carmichael Mines that will destroy the Great Barrier Reef and your indigenous communities. Adani is using his Government connections to get away with bloody murder. Please do keep us posted on the progress while praying that you all are blessed with success in stopping Adani from destroying your land and your people. Back in Goa too we are fighting Adani who plans to ship your coal through our port MPT that is carrying out dredging activities without proper permissions and studies and acquire our homes, fields and lands to ship this coal across India. Friends, A moment of relief. Together we pushed back on Brandis’s ill-conceived ‘Adani amendments’, and encouraged the Labor Opposition to hold a line on decency. More than 6,000 supporters contacted Bill Shorten’s office over the last two weeks in response to Labor’s apparent capitulation to pressure from the mining lobby and native title bureaucrats. It was an overwhelming and positive demonstration of concern and integrity by W&J supporters, and a demand to do what’s right. *And at the end of two weeks of sittings in which the Senate was expected to carry Brandis’ amendments, the Government failed to pass its Bill.* We have fought hard against this change to the native title law. We lobbied in Canberra, ran media, prepared legal analysis, made detailed submissions and appeared before the Senate Inquiry. We met the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples. And with you, we mobilised to demonstrate just how much people in this country care about Aboriginal rights and the protection of our lands and waters. And how much they don’t want Adani’s horrid mine proposal. *This is a major setback for Adani, the Qld Government, and their backers in the mining lobby, who thought the amendments would help them circumvent the legal challenge we have mounted to their sham land use deal.* The Adani Board is apparently set to make a decision within the next two weeks on whether to push on with the mine project. But it still faces our court actions. *Right now, their purported ‘Indigenous land use agreement’ is worthless.* It is clear this controversial Bill does not sit well with many Labor and crossbench MPs - and the incompetent rush with which Attorney General Brandis went about it added insult to injury. While we welcome Labor's resistance on some elements of the bill, which has prevented its passage through the Senate, *it doesn't diminish their unacceptable support for the key measures.* And Labor are still ready to back dangerous native title changes. If the changes they do support are passed in the next sitting of Parliament, it will strip away protections and hand mining companies like Adani the means to divide and conquer us and traditional owners around the country. *We must continue to fight against the winding back and removal of our rights. * The Parliament must go back to the drawing board on Native Title reform and deliver a just outcome that protects the integrity of our decision-making and our right to self-determination. Please follow up with Bill Shorten, Mark Dreyfus and Pat Dodson to encourage them to turn their resistance into a positive new move for native title reform and land justice. And Cc us of course, so we can share your concerns with the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples. Send your messages to - [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] And Cc us at - [email protected] *The Government, Adani and the mining lobby are overconfident in their power to subordinate the rights of Indigenous peoples. What they don’t understand is how resolved we are, and how much support in the community we have, to defend our rights.* Now that the Turnbull Government’s divisive Native Title amendment bill is languishing in the Senate, we will redouble our efforts. We should not have our rights violated by a land use deal that we do not agree to, which would open the way to the mass destruction of our country. *We will fight this bill and the Adani mine. Our fight is far from over.* Thank you for your phenomenal support, *Adrian Burragubba & Murrawah Johnson* *for the Wangan & Jagalingou Traditional Owners Council* P.S. As always, our need for funds to sustain our effort is ongoing. Please donate <http://wanganjagalingou.com.au/donate/>when you can to assist with our long struggle. And also, visit our web site <http://wanganjagalingou.com.au> for detailed information and share our Facebook page <https://www.facebook.com/WanganandJagalingou/> so others can learn about our campaign. On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 5:48 PM, Adrian Burragubba via CommunityRun < [email protected]> wrote: > Friends, > > A moment of relief. > > Together we pushed back on Brandis’s ill-conceived ‘Adani amendments’, and > encouraged the Labor Opposition to hold a line on decency. > > More than 6,000 supporters contacted Bill Shorten’s office over the last > two weeks in response to Labor’s apparent capitulation to pressure from the > mining lobby and native title bureaucrats. > > It was an overwhelming and positive demonstration of concern and integrity > by W&J supporters, and a demand to do what’s right. > > *And at the end of two weeks of sittings in which the Senate was expected > to carry Brandis’ amendments, the Government failed to pass its Bill.* > > We have fought hard against this change to the native title law. We > lobbied in Canberra, ran media, prepared legal analysis, made detailed > submissions and appeared before the Senate Inquiry. We met the UN Special > Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples. > > And with you, we mobilised to demonstrate just how much people in this > country care about Aboriginal rights and the protection of our lands and > waters. And how much they don’t want Adani’s horrid mine proposal. > > *This is a major setback for Adani, the Qld Government, and their backers > in the mining lobby, who thought the amendments would help them circumvent > the legal challenge we have mounted to their sham land use deal.* > > The Adani Board is apparently set to make a decision within the next two > weeks on whether to push on with the mine project. But it still faces our > court actions. > > *Right now, their purported ‘Indigenous land use agreement’ is worthless.* > > It is clear this controversial Bill does not sit well with many Labor and > crossbench MPs - and the incompetent rush with which Attorney General > Brandis went about it added insult to injury. > > While we welcome Labor's resistance on some elements of the bill, which > has prevented its passage through the Senate, *it doesn't diminish their > unacceptable support for the key measures.* > > And Labor are still ready to back dangerous native title changes. If the > changes they do support are passed in the next sitting of Parliament, it > will strip away protections and hand mining companies like Adani the means > to divide and conquer us and traditional owners around the country. > > *We must continue to fight against the winding back and removal of our > rights. * > > The Parliament must go back to the drawing board on Native Title reform > and deliver a just outcome that protects the integrity of our > decision-making and our right to self-determination. > > Please follow up with Bill Shorten, Mark Dreyfus and Pat Dodson to > encourage them to turn their resistance into a positive new move for native > title reform and land justice. And Cc us of course, so we can share your > concerns with the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples. > > Send your messages to - > > [email protected] > > [email protected] > > [email protected] > > And Cc us at - > > [email protected] > > *The Government, Adani and the mining lobby are overconfident in their > power to subordinate the rights of Indigenous peoples. What they don’t > understand is how resolved we are, and how much support in the community we > have, to defend our rights.* > > Now that the Turnbull Government’s divisive Native Title amendment bill is > languishing in the Senate, we will redouble our efforts. We should not have > our rights violated by a land use deal that we do not agree to, which would > open the way to the mass destruction of our country. > > *We will fight this bill and the Adani mine. Our fight is far from over.* > > Thank you for your phenomenal support, > > *Adrian Burragubba & Murrawah Johnson* > > *for the Wangan & Jagalingou Traditional Owners Council* > > > P.S. As always, our need for funds to sustain our effort is ongoing. Please > donate <http://wanganjagalingou.com.au/donate/>when you can to assist > with our long struggle. And also, visit our web site > <http://wanganjagalingou.com.au> for detailed information and share our > Facebook page <https://www.facebook.com/WanganandJagalingou/> so others > can learn about our campaign. > ------------------------------ > > Adrian Burragubba started this petition on CommunityRun. If there's an > issue close to your heart that you'd like to campaign on, you can start > your campaign here > <http://www.communityrun.org/petition/new?source=petition_email_footer>. > > > You received this email because you signed the petition 'Stop Adani > destroying our land and our culture > <http://www.communityrun.org/petitions/don-t-let-adani-build-their-huge-coal-mine-on-our-traditional-land>'. > If you don't want to receive emails from the 'Stop Adani destroying our > land and our culture > <http://www.communityrun.org/petitions/don-t-let-adani-build-their-huge-coal-mine-on-our-traditional-land>' > campaign in the future, please unsubscribe > <http://www.communityrun.org/petitions/don-t-let-adani-build-their-huge-coal-mine-on-our-traditional-land/signatures/d0b9fd0e802ba343018145c702e4d312aeb0fe73/unsubscribing?blast_email_id=16035>. >
