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Macklin rejects new land council proposal
Brisbane :: Australia | 3 months ago
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Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin is rejecting an application from Aboriginal groups seeking to create their own breakaway land council. "I am not satisfied that the applicants could satisfactorily perform land council functions," Ms Macklin
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Town on tenterhooks awaiting Rio decision
Rio Tinto :: Portugal | 4 months ago
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IT is variously described as one of the wealthiest towns in Australia, a mining centre and a place for nearby Aboriginal people to get schooling, food and hospital care. But any day a decision will be reached that many in the outback centre of
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Fears over Gove refinery closure
Commerce :: CA :: USA | 4 months ago
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AN Aboriginal land council is warning of dire consequences for indigenous people if mining giant Rio Tinto Ltd closes its refinery in Gove. As Rio Tinto's January 31 deadline for a report on the viability of the Gove alumina refinery approaches,
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Mills slammed over NT dump comments
Canberra :: Australia | 7 months ago
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Northern Territory government after Chief Minister Terry Mills appeared to accept a nuclear waste dump would be built in the jurisdiction. "I accept the premise of this, that there needs to be a site," Mr Mills has told ABC radio. "Given that, we
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Native title granted for 30,000sq km in NT
Darwin :: Australia | 11 months ago
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During his 87 years Aboriginal man Stephen Roberts has had to endure seeing much of his ancestral lands under control of other people...His people began the native title action in 2000. "The land to me is important It is where my dreamtime stories
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Nuclear dump court battle begins
Tampa :: FL :: USA | 11 months ago
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Story continues below The proposed site at Muckaty Station, north of Tennant Creek, was nominated by the Northern Land Council in 2007. Ms Phillip's father was a stockman who worked there - are vehemently opposed to such a dramatic transformation.
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Kakadu victory as uranium mining battle ends
Sydney :: Australia | 12 months ago
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The Northern Land Council (NLC) has agreed for a 1,200 hectare parcel of land containing rich reserves of uranium to be incorporated in to the park. It is considered the final step in a long battle that Aboriginal traditional owner Jeffrey Lee has
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NLC sees hope in more land lease agreements
Sydney :: Australia | 12 months ago
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The NLC will consider about 270 land agreements at its full council meeting this week. The Federal Government acquired leases over Aboriginal communities as part of its Intervention measures in the Territory, but the leases will expire in August. NLC
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Radioactive dump - with 10 days' notice, court told
Melbourne :: Australia | 1 year ago
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Angela Wylie A nuclear waste dump on Aboriginal land should go ahead even if the land's traditional owners have been incorrectly identified to government, the Commonwealth has told the Federal Court. If it was found that a land council gave the
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Native title granted in Mataranka
Brisbane :: Australia | 1 year ago
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THE movie We of the Never Never shows how little European settlers in Mataranka in the Northern Territory understood the local Aboriginal people. But in a sign of how far things have come in the past century, the same Aboriginal groups portrayed in
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