Traditional owners in Kakadu are celebrating the formal handback of their ancestral lands following a ceremony in the heart of one of Australia's most iconic national parks.Around 50 per cent of the national park has been officially recognised as Aboriginal land
The World Heritage-listed park was established in the 1970s but until today only half of the region had been returned to its traditional custodians. He said the campaign for formal recognition began in 1977 when a federal inquiry into the Ranger uranium mine recommended the Alligator Rivers region that covers Kakadu be declared as Aboriginal land.
"There are new opportunities for traditional owners to be directing, involved in and to benefit from improved and enhanced park operations, fire abatement programs and the new carbon economy," he said. In a separate ceremony in the Roper River region earlier on Thursday, the minister handed over the deeds of title for both the Urapunga township near Ngukurr and the Old Elsey Homestead near Mataranka.Mr Bush-Blanasi at the Mataranka ceremony.
This didn’t even make the news on commercial television tonight. Fucking disgraceful pardon the French. How can we have war death and COVID every bloody night and not this
NO ONE OWNS THE LAND, FACT WE ARE JUST CARETAKERS. ABORIGINALS WERE NOT HERE FIRST, THEY WERE HERE BEFORE EUROPEANS THATS ALL
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