It has been a couple of weeks since I’ve returned from Waddananggu, the one year celebration of the Wangan and Jagalingou peoples’ reoccupation of their lands. The W&J people have been fighting the Adani conglomerate for over a decade now to stop the building of the Carmichael mine on their ancestral lands. I spent the past weeks reading through the history of the W&J resistance to better understand the countless insidious ways in which the state and industry have acted together to violate the W&J people’s rights to their land, their culture, their sovereignty.