An old protest against Adani in Australia is going viral with a misleading claim. Read- Fact Check

A picture is getting viral on social media sites regarding Indian Billionaire industrialist Gautam Shantilal Adani. Adani is the talk of the town after the controversy sparked when short-seller Hindenburg Research disclosed citing potential stock manipulation and accounting fraud in a report. The allegations sent bonds and shares in the conglomerate’s companies down. 

By sharing the picture a user captions: “ Protests in Australia against Adani! It’s spreading like wildfire! Only @RBI and @SEBI_India mutely following orders from their masters!”

Source: Twitter

Meanwhile, many other social media users share the same picture with similar claims.

Source: Twitter

Source: Twitter

Source: Twitter

Source: Twitter

Fact Check:

To know the reality of the viral claim the team of DFRAC did a reverse image search on google and found that about regional has covered this report on 9 October 2017 with the headline stating: “ Eurobodalla and Bega valley locals say “Stop Adani”

Source: aboutregional

The report further mentions South East locals have been part of national protest action against the Adani coal mine proposed for North Queensland. Protesters turned out in forty- five locations from Adelaide to Bondi to Bunbury over the weekend.

Locally, Eurobodalla 350 estimates around 250 people attended their protest at Congo Beach on Saturday, holding placards to spell out #STOP ADANI.

Spokesperson Allan Rees said-We demanded the federal government halt Adani’s enormous proposed coal mine.

Organiser Sue Andrew sees the Adani mine as a litmus paper issue for a globe preparing for a climate change future.

The Indian-based Adani is seeking a billion-dollar government loan to build a railway line linking it proposed Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin to the Abbot Point coal port on the Great Barrier Reef.

On further research, the team found several media houses have covered this report.

Source: indianexpress

Source: thewire

Source: economictimes

At the same time, a different YouTube channel has uploaded a video of Australians protesting against coal mines.

Source: YouTube

Source: YouTube

We are sharing a collage of some old tweets from 2017 related to Australians protest against Adani.

Conclusion: 

It is clear from the fact check and several media reports that the viral claim of the Australian protest against Adani is in 2017 because of the proposed construction of the bigger coal mine in the country. It has nothing to do with the recent controversy of Hindenburg and Adani. Therefore, the claim made by social media users is Misleading.