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Ngalia elder Kado Muir, who is also a member of the Indigenous Peoples Organisation Australia and chair of the National Native Title Council, addressed the United Nations’ expert mechanism on the rights of Indigenous peoples via video link last week as part of its global investigations into the right to self-determination by Indigenous people.

A group consisting of InterContinental Energy, CWP Global and Mirning Green Energy Ltd, a fully-owned subsidiary of the Mirning Traditional Lands Aboriginal Corporation, today announced they plan to build in phases an integrated green fuels mega project in Western Australia featuring up to 50 GW of wind and solar power capacity.

As Project Sea Dragon comes one step closer to lift-off, The Fish Site assesses the potential impacts – both positive and negative – that it’s likely to have on the social, economic and environmental fabric of two remote regions of Australia.

An Indigenous Land Use Agreement (ILUA), signed in 2017, involved Traditional Owners of lands at Legune Station agreeing to suspend their Native Title for a period of 95 years in exchange for an undisclosed value in compensation.

Aboriginal Affairs Minister Stephen Dawson and Lands Minister Tony Buti have today executed the first documents that give effect to Boodja (Lands) transfers under the South West Native Title Settlement (Settlement) at a signing ceremony with Noongar leaders and elders at Parliament House.

Animals, plants, fungi, and bacteria leave DNA as they move through the environment. By analysing the DNA found in water, soil, or other natural places, scientists can work out which species have been in a particular habitat. The technique could soon be added to the conservation toolkit of Esperance rangers.

Wintawari Guruma Aboriginal Corporation’s (WGAC) mining scorecard will be even more important for Rio Tinto after recent revelations the miner signed off on the dumping of Eastern Guruma cultural heritage material at the Darwin rubbish tip in the 1990s.

Mining giant BHP has asked the South Australian Parliament to impose harsher penalties on companies that illegally damage Aboriginal heritage sites, arguing the current maximum $50,000 fine should be increased to as high as $10 million.

One of Australia's longest running native title fights has ended with the formal return of land rights to traditional owners in the Kakadu Northern Territory township of Jabiru.

The town is home to a vibrant traditional art centre, the home of the notorious Cahills Crossing where fishermen battle crocs for a catch, and on the doorstep of World-Heritage listed Kakadu National Park.

Kaurna Yerta Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC looks after the ‘stolen generation of the dead’—and in bringing them home to rest, invites all Australians to join in the healing.