Indigenous group takes mine fight global

An indigenous group determined to stop an Indian coal giant building a $16.5 billion mine on their lands is taking their fight global.

Adani's Carmichael mine, expected to export at least 50 million tonnes of coal a year, is slated for Queensland's Galilee Basin on traditional lands of the Wangan and Jagalingou (W&J) people.

W&J spokesmen Adrian Burragubba and Murrawah Johnson will on Sunday embark on a three-week global tour to urge major investment banks in New York, Washington, London and Zurich to immediately rule out funding the mine.

They will also meet with traditional owners overseas, including indigenous Canadian groups opposing tar sands projects in the province of Alberta.

But first, the group will campaign outside Adani's Brisbane offices on Friday.

They will serve papers on the company announcing a landmark Federal Court challenge.

Mr Burragubba says the group has filed an appeal and judicial review to challenge the National Native Title Tribunal's decision to allow the Queensland government to issue mining leases for Carmichael.

He said the group planned to take the matter all the way to the High Court.

"We won't rest until this disastrous project is thrown on the scrap heap of history and our culture can live strong and thrive into the future as it has since time immemorial," he said.

Mr Johnson said the court action and the tour were just the latest steps in that fight.

"We will do whatever is necessary to stand up for (our) country and ensure that Adani and its friends in government and finance understand that when we say no, we mean no," he said.