Free webinaron the updated PBC website.It will provide guidance on the updated website, revealing short cuts to find vital information and highlighting the updates and changes made to the site. Share your views on the PBC website and how we can assist with other information your PBC needs.
4 pm – 4.45 pm AEDT, Thursday 26 November 2020 Click here to register for the webinars.
Gomeroi Traditional Owner Polly Cutmore has vowed to continue to fight on behalf of the Gomeroi Nation against what she describes as the 'gas invasion', despite the Commonwealth government signing off on the Narrabri Gas Project this week.
Time for Change: A Discussion about Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Laws
Traditional Owners from across Australia explore the practical and legislative framework that should protect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Heritage.
Free webinaron the updated PBC website.It will provide guidance on the updated website, revealing short cuts to find vital information and highlighting the updates and changes made to the site. Share your views on the PBC website and how we can assist with other information your PBC needs.
12.15pm – 1 pm AEDT, Tuesday 24 November 2020 Click here to register for the webinars.
Few in big cities know about the "mound springs", but they are of deep cultural significance for the Arabana people who hold native title over Lake Eyre and its surrounds. They are also a precious source of life for humans, animals and plants in a hostile environment.
Environment, Heritage, Mining, Water, Water rights
The 'Paddle Out' was part of its campaign to "Save Batemans Marine Sanctuaries" after the government announced an amnesty on fishing in six sanctuary zones within the Batemans Marine Park in December 2019.
A private agribusiness is seeking to use more than 40,000 megalitres of water each year in arid central Australia to irrigate what it says will be one of the country’s biggest fruit and vegetable operations.
Agreements, ILUA (Indigenous Land Use Agreement), Water rights
The closure and rehabilitation of Australia's most famous diamond mine is being seen as an opportunity for traditional owners to reconnect with country and grow an exciting new business venture in the remote East Kimberley.
Caring for Country, Environment, ILUA (Indigenous Land Use Agreement), Mining
Glencore's McArthur River Mine, a lead and zinc mine near Borroloola in the Gulf of Carpentaria, now has a security bond of about $400 million instead of $520 million.
As a senate inquiry investigates Rio Tinto’s destruction of the Juukan Gorge caves, Senator Pat Dodson says a royal commission into the entire Native Title Act may be necessary as the law ‘has been basically brought into disrepute by the capacity of those who are rich and powerful’.
Heritage, Mining
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