Adani has made legal moves that expose two traditional owners to possible jail time if they return to a ceremonial camp on the company's Queensland mine site, the men's lawyer has said.

Key points: A Supreme Court order has been granted against W&J man Adrian Burragubba and his son Coedy McAvoy

A Supreme Court order has been granted against W&J man Adrian Burragubba and his son Coedy McAvoy Mr Burragubba's lawyer Col Hardie said the court order was a "disturbing development"

Mr Burragubba's lawyer Col Hardie said the court order was a "disturbing development" An Adani spokeswoman said the order was necessary to prevent "further unauthorised access upon our sites"

The mining giant engaged a private investigator and equipped security guards with body cameras as part of obtaining a Supreme Court order against Wangan and Jagalingou (W&J) man Adrian Burragubba and his son Coedy McAvoy.

Mr Burragubba's lawyer Col Hardie said the court order was a "disturbing development" that means Adani can automatically call on police to remove Mr Burragubba and his son from the site.

Adani's security guards filmed a verbal confrontation with the two men as they drove out of the mine site on September 4.

Days earlier, the ABC revealed the Queensland Government had quietly extinguished native title over the mine site — including the site of a ceremonial camp set up by W&J mine opponents away from Adani operations — without first telling traditional owners.

The Government said it did so in line with an Indigenous Land Use Agreement (ILUA) approved by a majority of W&J people, and unsuccessfully challenged in the Federal Court by Mr Burragubba and others.

Adrian Burragubba stands outside Federal Parliament in Canberra. ( Supplied: Adrian Burragubba )

Police have already expressed concern about "cultural sensitivities" given it was "likely" that Adani would ask for Mr Burragubba or others to be removed.

Mr Hardie said the "only reason" Adani would seek the court order was "to allow them to invoke criminal sanctions against the W&J people that are opposed to their mine".

"Once the order's in place, if they go on to the freeholded part of the lease, they can get arrested by the police and potentially punished by a court for contempt and that punishment could include jail time," he said.

"Normally it's a civil matter. If someone trespasses on your land, you have the right to sue. Police generally only get involved if there's some form of threat of violence."

'The war is not over'

On October 8 Justice Glenn Martin made an interim order that Mr Burragubba, Mr McAvoy and other W&J mine opponents not enter or "physically interfere" with mine site land "without the prior written consent" of Adani.

They also must not "damage any posts on the land".

In a video filed in court by Adani, Mr McAvoy is shown pulling a sign out of the ground that stated "no unauthorised access" and throwing it.

"We will come back at our leisure when we feel like it," Mr Burragubba tells the security guards.

"Who do you work for? Who ordered you to be here?"

The guards reply they are "not authorised" to say but tell them they are trespassing.

In a Facebook video post the next day, Mr McAvoy says the "war is not over, we regroup, head back to the city and find ourselves an ARMY of people".

"We will be back Adani, but next time it won't just be us, it will be thousands of people — white and black all standing together."

Adani employees visited a camp set up by traditional owner opponents of the mine on August 27. ( Supplied )

Mr Hardie said the court order was an "unprecedented" step for a mining company in dealings with traditional owners.

"[Adani] has upped the ante. It is a very disturbing development, particularly for relations between mining companies and Indigenous people," he said.

'People cannot simply trespass': Adani

Adani's lawyer David Dowd declined to comment.

An Adani spokeswoman said the company "respect[s] the traditions and culture of Aboriginal people, in particular those of the Wangan and Jagalingou people".

"Accordingly we have engaged every step of the way with Wangan and Jagalingou people and followed all federal and state legislative processes to establish land tenure for the Carmichael Project," she said.

"Having followed all of the legislative processes in securing land tenure this means that we are afforded the same legal protections and expectations as any other landholder.

"Specifically this means that people cannot simply trespass on our property or break the law because they feel that they are above the law or the law does not apply to them.

"In particular Mr Adrian Burragubba and members of a group to which he belongs have in recent weeks trespassed on Adani property for extended periods and stated their intention to return without following established access protocols or complying with laws that otherwise apply to everyone else.

"Given their stated intention to trespass again, it has become necessary for Adani Mining to apply to the Supreme Court of Queensland to injunct Mr Burragubba, his companion Mr Coedie McAvoy and anyone associated with them, from further unauthorised access upon our sites.

"We are supportive of the Wangan and Jagalingou people's cultural practices and ceremonies however, as a responsible landholder, we will continue to ensure that all access to our sites occurs in a planned, safe and respectful manner."

Mr Hardie said it was "unprecedented" for the State Government to wipe out native title rights without notice to traditional owners.

"It was a situation where the Aboriginal people that were opposed to the mine, had been exercising their culture, hunting, fishing, gathering, performing ceremonies, corroboree on that piece of land," he said.

Adrian Burragubba says traditional owners will keep fighting Adani. ( ABC News: Josh Robertson )

"They've been doing that for 40,000 years and the next moment they have no right to do it."

Adani accused of misinformation

Adani's court order does not cover a section of its mine site that is classified as a pastoral lease.

Mr Hardie accused Adani of "misinformation" by claiming W&J people need the company's permission to enter that land.

"They seem to have enough lawyers, they seem to be able to go down to courts and get orders," he said.

"Why they don't go and get some proper advice as to what the rights of Aboriginal people are on pastoral leases is beyond me."

He said a letter from police to a native title service in August showed "police are trying to resolve this diplomatically".

"I don't think they want to put themselves in the middle of a big foreign mining company on one hand and a group of Aboriginal people on the other, especially since those Aboriginal people are my understanding, behaving peacefully and doing nothing more than performing their traditional rites," he said.

One police officer privately told the ABC they would seek to take "enforcement action" only where required but try to resolve the situation "without instituting [legal] proceedings".