Indigenous group says Tanya Plibersek ‘hasn’t done her homework’ on Burrup peninsula fertiliser plant

Save Our Songlines accuses environment minister of false conclusions' and faulty reasoning' about support for development and says it risks another Juukan Gorge'

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Traditional custodians opposed to a contentious $4.5bn fertiliser plant on Western Australia's Burrup peninsula have accused Tanya Plibersek of faulty reasoning" and drawing false conclusions" about the views of local Aboriginal communities after she decided not to pause the development.

The environment minister decided work on the plant could go ahead after visiting the peninsula, in the state's north, earlier this month. She said her decision was based on support for the development from the Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation, which she described as the legally constituted and democratically elected group that safeguards First Nations culture in the Burrup area".

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