Senior Aboriginal leaders from northern Australia have slammed green activists, accusing them of using Indigenous people to further their own agendas.
Marion Scrymgour accuses Greens of 'using' Indigenous Australians 'for their own means' as Aboriginal leaders condemn misrepresentation of traditional owners
“In the Territory in particular, it is rare for an environmental cause that has gained the attention of the media to not include in their narrative the Aboriginal voices that are on ‘their’ side of the argument, and any Aboriginal voice that is pro-development is to be ignored or portrayed in a less virtuous light,” she said.
He said the Kimberley Land Council had spent six years negotiating a deal with Woodside and 54 different Aboriginal groups in the region. Mr Bergmann said activists and the media had wrongly portrayed some Indigenous opponents of the project as “traditional owners”. “It was with some crankiness that I was watching certain people being called Tiwi elders and traditional owners and they had very little connection to the Tiwi Islands,” she said.
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