Traditional owners are taking Adani back to court over its proposed coal mine in central Queensland, demanding that the company withdraw what they say is a "fake" Indigenous Land Use Agreement.
The Wangan and Jagalingou Traditional Owners Council will on Monday ask the Federal Court in Brisbane to strike out the agreement that helps paves the way for the Indian mining giant's mine in the Galilee Basin.
"The document Adani is trying to pass off as an Indigenous Land Use Agreement with our people is illegitimate," council spokesman Adrian Burragubba said.
Another council member Murrawah Johnson said Adani used rent-a-crowds and other dishonest tactics to get the agreement.
"(In April last year) Adani paid for Aboriginal people to attend who had never claimed native title on Wangan and Jagalingou traditional country," she said.
"There were hundreds of people who aren't direct descendants of our W&J ancestors in attendance, to sign up to an ILUA."
The W&J people last year lost a judicial review of the decision by the National Native Title Tribunal to issue leases associated with the mine.
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