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.