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1 July 2018
As NT marks 40 years of self-government, former Labor MLA Ken Parish says the system has been problematic
The Northern Territory should become the “test bed” for reforms proposed in the Uluru statement and establish a formal Indigenous voice to parliament, a former Labor parliamentarian and…
14 June 2018
Ironically, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s rejection of the 2017 Statement from the Heart, proposing more meaningful national engagement with Indigenous peoples, has accelerated demands for a treaty process across the country. Victoria and the Northern Territoryhave both moved ahead on this…
24 November 2017
Native vegetation was home to several threatened species and was in a Great Barrier Reef catchment
Queensland farmers are suspected of having defied rare federal government intervention and cleared a large swath of land without commonwealth approval, according to conservationists.
The native…
7 November 2017
A grassroots revolution is occurring in East Arnhem Land as Aboriginal Australians strive to become landlords rather than tenants on their own land.
Two Indigenous communities, Baniyala and Gunyungara, are working to take control of economic development of their regions for the first time in the 40…
18 October 2017
The pioneers of the Aboriginal land rights movement in the Kimberley are working off a faded photograph to try to identify people who took part in the Noonkanbah land rights protests, which galvanised Indigenous resistance in the region almost 40 years ago.
The iconic image was taken in 1978 and…
13 August 2017
INDIGENOUS leaders will meet on Wednesday at a forum in Lismore as part of a state government review into the Aboriginal Land Rights Act.
Lismore is one of nine locations where the forums are being held as part of consultations to review the act to ensure its relevance for indigenous communities…
7 August 2017
Bauxite has played a role more critical than perhaps any other bit of dirt in the modern land rights struggle.
The 1963 Yirrkala bark petitions protesting an Arnhem Land deal to mine the ore used to make aluminium arguably kicked off the drive to legally reclaim indigenous property.
It was to be…
7 August 2017
Mental Health Australia says governments need better response to ‘slow-burning, invisible kind of tragedy’
Governments are better at tackling natural disasters than longer-term problems in remote Indigenous communities, the head of Mental Health Australia has said.
The Arnhem Land community of…
31 July 2017
RESEARCH looking at the demand for forage by all grazing animals is underway in a project that could deliver valuable information to rangelands livestock producers about the time when risks of losing feedbase occur.
This unique national study will apply a cross sector and jurisdiction approach…
20 July 2017
Historic claim recognised around Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue mine
Court upholds $3.3m Timber Creek payout ruling against NT government
The federal court has handed down two major wins for native title holders, dismissing a government appeal against a landmark compensation case and recognising an…
17 May 2017
Annastacia Palaszczuk says lands back with ‘rightful owners’, including site of scheme pushed by Joh Bjelke-Petersen
Traditional owners whose elders fought off a grandiose scheme for a spaceport pushed by Joh Bjelke-Petersen a generation ago have taken back their north Queensland country.
The…
20 April 2017
There was a “worrying lack of transparency” around the Federal Government’s funding model for programs targeting Indigenous Australia, aid agency Oxfam said in a report released this month.
Oxfam Australia said under the Indigenous Advancement Strategy, the Federal Government was increasingly…