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Pastoralists in Western Australia will not be affected by a Federal Court ruling in relation to Indigenous Land Use Agreements, according to a peak industry body.
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| UpdatedThe sale of a 700 acre estate on the island of Kauai in Hawaii to Facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg has led to accusations of neo-colonialism.
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Australia's first Aboriginal grower group has been officially established by DAFWA.
Topics: aboriginal, agricultural-crops, crop-harvesting, vegetables, land-management, land-rights, native-title, moore-river-national-park-6503, esperance-6450, albany-6330, bunbury-6230, perth-6000
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Over 500 Aboriginal people have met in Narooma to approve the submission of a native title claim covering 14,000 square kilometres of the south-east of New South Wales coast.
Topics: aboriginal, land-rights, narooma-2546
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A new appointment at Booderee National Park, on the New South Wales South Coast, moves the park closer to transferring management back to the local Indigenous community.
Topics: indigenous-culture, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, land-rights, jervis-bay-2540, act
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| UpdatedTraditional owners from the remote Mutitjulu community near Uluru have signed off on a landmark leasing deal after six years of negotiations with the Federal Government.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, indigenous-policy, government-and-politics, land-rights, nt, yulara-0872, australia
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| UpdatedA piece of Northern Territory history linked to the land rights movement is set to be immortalised in the National Museum of Australia in Canberra.
Topics: history, community-and-society, land-rights, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, kalkaringi-0852
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Topics: land-rights, land-management, glen-innes-2370
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| UpdatedThe Glen Innes Severn Council mayor Steve Toms describes a series of Aboriginal land claims in the region as "opportunistic".
Topics: land-rights, land-management, glen-innes-2370
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Topics: death, community-and-society, land-rights, unions, darwin-0800, nt
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Eighty years after swimming at her childhood beach, a Larrakia great-grandmother reflects on its Indigenous heritage and calls for its name to be changed.
Topics: indigenous-culture, indigenous-protocols, land-rights, family, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, darwin-0800
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Traditional owners in remote NT will have to wait longer for $3.3m in compensation after the Northern Territory Government announces it will launch an appeal.
Topics: land-rights, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, rights, native-title, law-crime-and-justice, timber-creek-0852
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| UpdatedThe inaugural Vincent Lingiari award is won by Alice Springs artist Marlene Rubuntja for her soft sculpture work titled My future is in my hands.
Topics: contemporary-art, arts-and-entertainment, land-rights, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, alice-springs-0870
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Not many people know that one of the most iconic photos in Australian history actually shows a re-staging of the event, says activist Mervyn Bishop, who captured the original scene.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, history, land-rights, kalkaringi-0852, nt
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| UpdatedEddie Mabo's daughter and other family members visit the grave of Vincent Lingiari to mark the 50th anniversary of the Wave Hill walk-off.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, land-rights, kalkaringi-0852
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| UpdatedDescendents of the Gurindji men and women who walked off Wave Hill station in 1966 to protest against unfair working and living conditions retrace their steps to mark the 50th anniversary.
Topics: aboriginal, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, land-rights, kalkaringi-0852, nt
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Some of the stockmen who participated in the original Wave Hill walk off protest share their firsthand accounts of the most historic protest in Australian land rights history.
Topics: community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, land-rights, federal-government, government-and-politics, nt
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It’s the 50th anniversary of the most historic land rights event in Australian history: the federal government returned the land owned by the Gurindji people. How did it all unfold?
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| UpdatedFifty years ago, Vincent Lingiari and 200 stockmen and house workers walked off the job at the Wave Hill cattle station. Look back at the key events before and after that historic day.
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| UpdatedFormer stockman Jimmy Wavehill walked off the job alongside his mates 50 years ago and says looking back that everything would have been alright if they had just been "given a fair go".
Topics: government-and-politics, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, land-rights, nt
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| UpdatedThe government of Papua New Guinea is to transfer to the people of Bougainville, its shares in the Panguna copper mine that were gifted by Rio Tinto.
Topics: mining-industry, land-rights, government-and-politics, pacific, bougainville, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedLandowners in Hela Province are standing firm, refusing to give access to the PNG-LNG project in the highlands, despite pleas from a government delegation yesterday.
Topics: land-rights, oil-and-gas, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedPapua New Guinea Opposition Leader Don Polye has backed the landowners' action and called on the government to negotiate with community leaders.
Topics: land-rights, oil-and-gas, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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Truck that ferried food and supplies to the striking Gurindji people at Wave Hill in the 1960s.
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Kerry Gibbs ended up spending time with the Gurindji people during the Wave Hill walk-off in the 1960s after his unionist dad joined the cause.
Topics: automobile-enthusiasm, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, land-rights, historians, activism-and-lobbying, darwin-0800