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Adani coal mine

Saturday February 22

Wangan and Jagalingou Traditional Owners

Pilgrimage to the Waddananggu community

“I am very grateful to the Waddananggu community for welcoming me. It was such a privilege to be so welcomed to their Country and to learn about their culture and history. I felt empowered and humbled by their welcome. The Wangan and Jagalingou Traditional Owners make everyone an ‘us’ – they are inclusive of all even though they have been ‘othered’ since colonisation,” says Cathedral parishioner Angie Mooney

Living in the light: myth-busting multi-national malarkey

“Over the years, Adani has tried to convince us that digging up coal from our Galilee Basin to ship to India would help lift millions of people out of poverty and that we should therefore not oppose the project. Nothing could be further from the truth,” say Peter Branjerdporn, The Rev’d Peter Moore and Cathy Delaney

Oscar Delaney surveys the view from his house in Lucknow, India in 2018

Slumdog takes on millionaire

St Andrew’s, South Brisbane Youth Group leader Oscar Delaney reflects on growing up in Indian slums, how climate change will hit the worst-off first and hardest and why he is taking on mining tycoon Clive Palmer

“No faith in coal”: 150 religious leaders urge PM to show moral leadership

More than 150 religious leaders from across Australia, including local Anglicans, have issued an open letter calling on the Prime Minister to recognise Australia’s moral responsibility to avoid climate “catastrophe” and halt all new coal and gas projects