Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Indigenous land rights in Australia, also known as Aboriginal land rights in Australia, relate to the rights and interests in land of Aboriginal and Torres ... View article...

Can Indigenous land rights and Australia's economic interests coexist?  - The Indigenous population in Australia has a long and proud history of careful land management. In the many centuries preceding British colonial ...

Indigenous land officials urge caution on plans to turn the north into 'Asia's ... The Northern Land Counil is one of Australia's largest bodies overseeing Indigenous land rights. It says there's little difference between the positions of the Coalition opposition, and Australia's Labor federal government, in developing the north as a ...

Indigenous land rights pioneer Mr Wunungmurra to be farewelled at Arnhem Land state memorial ...  - He was NLC chair when traditional owners won the 2008 Blue Mud Bay decision, in which the High Court of Australia determined " Aboriginal land" ...

Pauline Hanson blasts Indigenous land rights 'bandwagon' - Senator Hanson says she gets upset when Australia is referred to as Aboriginal land, arguing she "didn't steal it" and it is something that happened in ...

Longest land rights claim in Australia settled  - It is recognition of a connection to country and traditional ownership that has continued despite the sweep of history,” federal Indigenous affairs ...

50 cent coin and stamp circulating for Indigenous rights - A new 50-cent coin and stamp are going into circulation to commemorate strides in Indigenous rights. Their release marks the 50th anniversary of the 1967 referendum and on the 25th anniversary of the High Court Mabo decision - named after Indigenous land rights campaigner Eddie Koiki Mabo. His granddaughter, Piadram and Mumbarra artist Boneta-Marie Mabo, designed the coin which will come into circulation across Australia within weeks. The coin features a picture of her father, as well as pamphlets from the 1967 referendum campaign with the words: 'Right wrongs, write "yes" for Aborigines!'

Gentrification or marginalisation? Indigenous residents split over Redfern plan - Two men walk past a wall painted with the Aboriginal flag in Redfern's Block, home to the first urban Indigenous land rights claim in Australia .

Indigenous rights expert backs review, saying owners need help with governance ... Canadian Aborigine Neil Sterritt delivered the annual Mabo Lecture at the National Native Title conference in Townsville yesterday and highlighted the parallels between land rights battles in his home country and in Australia . Dr Sterritt, a member of ...

UNSW student wins prestigious Indigenous law scholarship - The prestigious award is the only national scholarship dedicated to helping Indigenous law students achieve their ambition of becoming a lawyer. The award honours John Koowarta, a Winychanam Elder who pioneered Aboriginal land rights in Australia during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Brisbane joins sovereign rights protest : Ms Bales says one of the biggest issues facing indigenous communities in Australia is access to secure food and shelter. "This is symbolic of the land rights movement; we want human rights, just like anybody. The community behind the tent embassy say ...

Indigenous documentary filmed in regional South Australia making waves around world  - Yorke Peninsula filmmakers have had their Aboriginal land rights documentary ... has given voice to the stories of Aboriginal people in South Australia .

Indigenous leaders reveal Tasmanian locations facing Aboriginal land rights claim  - It seems to me that in his latest speech on Australia Day the Premier's said that he wants to return more land to the Aboriginal community," he said.

Indigenous commerce must come next : Indigenous people living in remote areas are treated differently under the law from other Australians . In most cases they cannot own their own homes. In regions subject to Land Rights Acts, government will not allow private title or make it so complex ... The Australian Financial Review

Top End traditional owners fear land rights will be dismantled in push to develop the north  - We've got a Prime Minister for Indigenous Australia and they put out press releases prior to them winning the elections that they would ...

Native title yes, but no land rights  - Going by the flood of earnest Indigenous heritage displays, trucked-in ... When will Australia start talking about changing the Native Title Act and ...

... the bicentenary of British settlement and the treatment of Indigenous people in Australia. Mr Christophersen also took his passion for Aboriginal land ... View article...

Indigenous title claim settlement 'one of the most complex' in SA history  - The Kokatha people of South Australia have settled an 18-year native title claim, gaining land rights, compensation and undisclosed agreements with ...

Oxfam report highlights native title woes in Western Australia - Native title rights are being undermined in the Kimberley region and the demand for land development is forcing Indigenous communities from their ...

Australia faces tyranny of history  - The 1992 victory by land rights campaigner Eddie Mabo will be complete when indigenous people are recognised in the nation's founding document.