Members of the sovereign Kabi Tribe will be gathering peacefully next Monday 15th November outside the Gympie magistrates court with other tribal representatives. Tribes have said they are gathering in their religious and spiritual tribal obligation to protect country and all who live on it from further abuse of their “human rights.”
The event follows the continued efforts of The Kabi Kabi traditional owners in Queensland who have relentlessly fought to protect their sacred site, Djaki kundu, which has been slated for a $1 billion dollar highway upgrade this year in Gympie.
The group demand that the highway be built around the site, not through it.
Earlier this year the federal environment minister rejected applications by the Kabi Kabi tribe saying that she was not “satisfied” the area was “significant, despite there being independent studies showing evidence that the site is in fact sacred.