Land Rights
Yindjibarndi Group chief executive Michael Woodley has issued an official response following the determination by the Federal Court on Tuesday that Fortescue should pay Yindjibarndi native title holde...
Yindjibarndi Traditional Owners "still haven't given up" after their long battle for compensation for mining on their Country saw the federal court award them $150 million.
Borah Crossing near Gunnedah has been declared an Aboriginal Place, formally recognising generations of Gamilaroi cultural connection to the area along the Namoi River.
Amnesty International has condemned Canadian authorities for unjustly criminalising an Indigenous leader defending Country. On April 28, the Court of Appeal for British Columbia ruled that Likhts'amis...
More than 92 per cent of Aboriginal Land Councils across New South Wales have condemned a recently introduced Bill as a threat to land rights, with hundreds rallying at Parliament House to oppose the...
In a housing crisis, new Elders' accommodation on the NSW Central Coast is about giving something back to "our old people who have paved the way for us", the local Land Council says.
Last month, ABC journalist Patricia Karvales reported that "Sovereignty means nothing to normal people". The comment ignores that sovereignty means everything to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander...
The New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council has formally lodged a complaint with the Australian Human Rights Commission regarding the government's proposed Crown Land Management Amendment (Statutory R...
Fears for the future of Aboriginal land rights remain in New South Wales, with state Minister Steve Kamper due to meet with a local land council while the state's peak body calls for a unified approac...
The 2026 Vincent Lingiari Art Award will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the passing of the Aboriginal Land Rights Act (NT) with an exhibition themed Our Country, Our Culture: 50 Years of Land Right...
A proposal to remove federal protections around Southwest USA's Chaco Culture National Historical Park has drawn renewed opposition from Indigenous leaders, who say a sacred cultural landscape is agai...
The British Columbia Court of Appeal has overturned a 2024 lower-court ruling this week after finding the judge used an "arbitrary boundary" to determine a First Nation's native title over a swath of...
The Indian Peaks Band of the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah, represented by the Native American Rights Fund, filed a Notice of Appeal and Petition for Stay with the US Department of the Interior on Wedne...