‘Still creeped out’: Queensland activist asks Adani to destroy surveillance photos taken of family

Anti-Adani coalmine activist Ben Pennings has written to the mining company asking for any photos to be handed over and destroyed. Photograph: Darren England/AAP

The environmental activist Ben Pennings says covert surveillance of his family members by a private investigator – hired by the mining giant Adani – continues to cause “concern” and “anxiety”, according to a letter requesting the company hand over and destroy any photographs of them.

Guardian Australia revealed in 2020 that a private investigator working for Adani took photographs of Pennings walking his nine-year-old daughter to school.