Two journalists received legal threats from Bravus after travelling to Carmichael coal site, parliament told

Matthew Abbott says he and another reporter were invited to meet Wangan and Jagalingou cultural custodians at the site where Bravus, formerly Adani, is mining

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Two journalists who travelled to meet Indigenous elders at the Carmichael mine site were surveilled, threatened with a police complaint and warned they would face legal action if they published any material obtained during their visit, documents tabled in parliament allege.

The award-winning photojournalist Matthew Abbott says he and a reporter from the Swiss-based NGO Public Eye last year travelled to meet with Wangan and Jagalingou cultural custodians to discuss their ceremonial reoccupation of the Carmichael mine site.