Anohni is protesting against Australia’s mining plans with an 110 mile walk

Anohni is joining a protest against plans to build a Uranium mine in the Western Australian desert. The Martu of Parnngurr - a community of Indigenous Australian people who live just 50 miles from the proposed site - have organised the protest, with over 100 Martu people, other friends and supporters, and Anohni all taking part in an 110 mile desert walk

The mining venture has already been approved by the federal Australian government, and according to Anohni, it poses “a threat to [the Martu people’s] wellbeing,”

“For the Martu in Parnngurr, the community nearest the proposed uranium mine, the plan is causing distress. Some of the women elders of Parnngurr seem not only to fear the potential danger that any uranium mine will obviously pose to the watershed and the local environment, but they also feel an existential burden of responsibility as the stewards of that land to protect dangerous resources from being exploited,” Anohni told The Guardian last year.

Anohni has long supported the Martu people’s fight against the Uranium mine - singing at various activist events, and spending ten days living in their community.