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Delegation in Paris ahead of Murujuga Cultural Landscape's World Heritage determination
A delegation from the Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation (MAC) has travelled to Par...
David Prestipino 6 Jul 2025
Traditional Owners, rangers and Northern Land Council team up for entry permit "blitz"
Traditional Owners, Njanjma Rangers, and the Northern Land Council headed out to...
Giovanni Torre 15 Oct 2024
Gold miner says Indigenous heritage protection order has killed $1b project
The company behind a major open-cut gold mine in western NSW said on Monday the...
David Prestipino 19 Aug 2024
NSW government takes major step to protect sacred Butterfly Cave
The NSW government is protecting a sacred Aboriginal Site, the Butterfly Cave, b...
Giovanni Torre 18 Jun 2024
Northern Land Council slams federal failure, backs independent inquiry on Binybara/Lee Point
The Northern Land Council has slammed the Federal Environment Minister's decisio...
Giovanni Torre 30 May 2024
Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation strikes deal for "equal footing in future decision-making" over Murujuga country

Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation has "defined a new approach" to agreement-making in Australia, following the signing Thursday of a Statement of Intent by the Corporation, the federal, state and local...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Mar 1, 2024
Alarm as miners seek approval to impact heritage sites without Traditional Owners' consent

A Western Australian Traditional Owners group has expressed "profound disappointment" over a mining company's Section 18 application to impact two sacred sites, submitted without the group's content.

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Feb 29, 2024
Kimberley Mineral Sands slammed for misleading statement on Land Council's "consent"

A mining company operating in Western Australia's north has falsely claimed it had the consent of the Kimberley Land Council for works, the Council says.

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Dec 18, 2023
Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority, Traditional Owners launch High Court action against Director of National Parks

The High Court of Australia will this week hold two days of hearings on the question of crown immunity for Commonwealth body corporates, and whether the Director of National Parks can be prosecuted fo...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Dec 11, 2023
Kimberley Mineral Sands CEO to depart as Traditional Owners raise land clearing claims

Kimberley Mineral Sands has confirmed their chief executive has been made redundant as Traditional Owners continue to raise concerns about alleged land clearing at one of the mining company's sites.

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Nov 24, 2023
Major upgrades planned for Patjarr Community services and infrastructure

The Western Australian government has provided the Warnpurru Aboriginal Corporation with a $1.17 million Lotterywest grant towards major upgrades at Patjarr Community, 1,200 kilometres north-east of K...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Nov 20, 2023
Murujuga Rangers help create "first of its kind" qualifications in monitoring rock art

Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation Rangers are helping to create a suite of university level "micro-credentials" for monitoring the rock art of Murujuga – the first of its kind in Australia, and li...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Nov 15, 2023
Muntulgura Guruma people take stand to protect sacred sites from proposed mine

Wintawari Guruma Aboriginal Corporation has urged a mining company to reconsider their plans to develop another mine at the doorstep of Karijini National Park.

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Nov 9, 2023
Aboriginal Elders suspend Rio Tinto site survey over heritage concerns

Traditional Owners have halted a heritage survey on Rio Tinto's Brockman Syncline project in the Pilbara after blasting impacted an Indigenous rock shelter.

David Prestipino David Prestipino Oct 11, 2023
Police launch inquiry into vandalism of sacred well in Queensland

In western Queensland, roughly 90 kilometres west of Windorah, a sacred well was recently filled with 25kg of concrete and other material by an unknown vandal.

Joseph Guenzler Joseph Guenzler Oct 7, 2023
New survey indicates "anxiety" over WA Aboriginal heritage laws to come into effect 1 July

Cultural heritage protection company Agreement Hub claimed on Friday that a new survey shows "an acute sense of anxiety" over the implementation of the Western Australia's Aboriginal Cultural Heritage...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Mar 3, 2023
First Nations heritage alliance welcomes new national cultural policy

The First Nations Heritage Protection Alliance has welcomed the federal government's new National Cultural Policy, Revive, for its focus on First Nations communities.

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Jan 31, 2023
Vandals destroy 40,000 year-old cave art in South Australia

Elders in South Australia have been left shocked and devastated by the deliberate destruction of ancient cave art which is up to 40,000 years old.

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Dec 21, 2022
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