First Nations woman one of seven global winners of prestigious Goldman prize for environmental activism

‘What colonisation hasn’t already done, climate change will do in terms of finalising the assimilation process for First Nations people,’ Murrawah Johnson says. Photograph: Goldman environmental prize

For Murrawah Johnson, the impacts of the climate crisis and the destruction of land to mine the fossil fuels that drive it are more than simple questions of atmospheric physics or environmental harm.

“What colonisation hasn’t already done, climate change will do in terms of finalising the assimilation process for First Nations people,” the 29-year-old Wirdi woman from Queensland says.