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News & PUBLICATIONS
Our Land, Our Life, Our Stories - Welcome to our blog, a place to share stories from across the Top End of the Northern Territory. Check back in periodically to find new articles.
Media releases
The Northern Land Council has condemned the NT Government’s Mataranka Water Allocation Plan (WAP), which was formally declared this week despite objections by Traditional Owners.
The Northern Land Council sets the record straight on falsehoods shared by Equatorial Launch Australia (ELA) as it announced its relocation to Queensland.
The historic Kenbi Land Claim, one of the longest-running land claims in Australia, has been finalised with the Australian and Northern Territory (NT) governments handing back the final parcels of land on the Cox Peninsula to the Kenbi Land Trust and Larrakia Development Corporation.
Publications
The NLC has facilitated the installation of two purpose-built marine buoys on the Finniss River to mark the closure line for the Delissaville/Wagait/Larrakia Aboriginal Land Trust.
For the NLC, systemic racism in the NT Police Force, both the Tactical Response Group (TRG) and more generally, is not just a relic of the past.
The NLC has escalated its calls to toughen up on illegal foreign fishing vessels this week with proof the boats are also being used for people smuggling.
STORIES
LAND RIGHTS NEWS ISSUES
Australia's oldest Aboriginal newspaper, telling stories from remote Aboriginal Lands.
Australia's oldest Aboriginal newspaper, telling stories from remote Aboriginal lands across the Northern Territory.
Australia's oldest Aboriginal newspaper, telling stories from remote Aboriginal lands across the Northern Territory.
LAND RIGHTS NEWS STORIES
Deborah Jones is a Ngaliwurru/ Nungali woman who lives at Timber Creek. Her traditional land is Wanimin Yirijpirnti, in the upper Victoria River area.
Since the first agreement over Territory parks 30 years ago at Nitmiluk— between Traditional Owners and the NT Parks and Wildlife Commission—there has been little coordinated planning, often poor management, and mixed government response to Aboriginal peoples inclusion to park management.
Since 2021, the Northern Land Council’s Wagiman Rangers have been working closer with their communities, neighbouring Ranger groups, local non-Aboriginal land managers and land-owners and external consultants and scientists to establish a sustainable fire and land management regime throughout their traditional lands.