“Australia’s trying to walk both sides of the street, so to speak, when it comes to climate change,” says Kevin Morrison, an energy finance analyst focused on Australian gas at the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). “It’s trying to say it’s a good citizen” while maintaining its fossil fuel exports, in part to keep its “trading relationships intact.”
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Many First Nations communities point to the huge detriment they have experienced as a result of fossil fuel production, which undermines their ancestral cultures in multifaceted ways … “We see our (Larrakia) country getting destroyed, and it’s like your arm or your leg getting chopped off,” says Larrakia elder and ethnobotanist Lorraine Williams.
“How can you offset cultural heritage? Once it’s gone, it’s gone.”
As Japan keeps buying gas, Aboriginal Australians pay the price
The Japan Times, 21/09/25
Featured image: Paulina “Jedda” Puruntatameri with Antonia Burke and Tiwi fisher Clinton offshore of Melville Island, one of the Tiwi Islands, in Australia’s Northern Territory © Paula Devora
