Murrawah Johnson recognised for role in landmark legal case to block coalmine backed by Clive Palmer
‘What colonisation hasn’t already done, climate change will do in terms of finalising the assimilation process for First Nations people,’ Murrawah Johnson says.‘What colonisation hasn’t already done, climate change will do in terms of finalising the assimilation process for First Nations people,’ Murrawah Johnson says.
Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup But the case was also the first to test the state’s new Human Rights Act, successfully arguing that the emissions from burning the coal would limit the rights of First Nations people. She remembers a community meeting in front of Adani’s lawyers and hundreds of Indigenous people in 2014 when she was asked to speak to represent young people after those gathered were handed an “information package” about the project.“I was 19 at the time and I said, ‘Where’s the environmental impact statement?’ – is there anything about the environmental impacts,” she says.
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