Anita Hofschneider

Senior Staff writer for Grist.

Indigenous leaders UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Your guide to the 2025 UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

The Trump administration’s border policies are expected to have a big impact on this year’s largest gathering of Indigenous leaders, activists, and policymakers.

April 22, 2025

2024 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

How an Aboriginal woman fought a coal company and won

In 2019, Australia was on the cusp of approving a new coal mine on traditional Wirdi land in Queensland that would have extracted approximately 40 million tons of coal each year for 35 years. But that didn’t happen, thanks to the advocacy of Murrawah Maroochy Johnson, a 29-year-old Wirdi woman of the Birri Gubba Nation, who led a lawsuit against the coal company in 2021, and won.

June 18, 2024