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Today's Fresh Blogs...| Judge rejects Tiwi lease bribe claims |
| Published: August 13, 2007, 5:01 am |
| Tags: Community Society, Indigenous, Land Rights, Government Politics, Federal Government, Law Crime Justice, Courts Trials, Darwin 0800, Tiwi 0810 |
| A Northern Territory Supreme Court judge has ruled there is no evidence that the Tiwi Land Council bribed traditional owners to sign up to a 99-year lease. |
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| Money not motivating factor behind lease signing: Brough |
| Published: September 20, 2007, 12:38 am |
| Tags: Community Society, Indigenous, Land Rights, Government Politics, Australia, Nhulunbuy 0880 |
| Indigenous Affairs Minister Mal Brough says the signing of a memorandum of understanding to access a 99-year lease over traditional land in the Northern Territory marks an historic occasion. |
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| Govt made 'big concessions' on 99-year lease |
| Published: September 21, 2007, 9:02 am |
| Tags: Community Society, Indigenous, Land Rights, Government Politics, Federal Government |
| Lawyers and academics says the Federal Government has made big concessions to secure the support of Gularrwuy Yunupingu for a 99-year lease on the Gove Peninsula. |
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| Aboriginal Tent Embassy nominated for Heritage List |
| Published: October 1, 2007, 6:01 am |
| Tags: Community Society, Indigenous, Indigenous Culture, Land Rights, Australia, Canberra 2600 |
| A bid has been launched for Canberra's Aboriginal Tent Embassy to be added to the National Heritage list. |
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| Brough confirms scrapping of NT land permits |
| Published: October 18, 2007, 5:25 am |
| Tags: Community Society, Indigenous, Land Rights, Government Politics, Federal Government, Federal State Issues, Australia |
| Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Mal Brough says he is pushing ahead with scrapping the permits system for Aboriginal land, despite Member for Lingiari Warren Snowdon saying permits would stay under a Labor government. |
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| Calls for transparency over Labor, Greens land deal |
| Published: November 14, 2007, 2:11 am |
| Tags: Indigenous, Land Rights, Government And Politics, Elections, Federal Government, Labor Party, Greens, Federal Election 2007, Qld, Cairns 4870 |
| The Young Australian of the Year is calling on federal Labor leader Kevin Rudd to explain whether a deal has been struck between the Labor Party and the Greens about protecting land in Cape York, in far north Queensland. |
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| Githabul people win northern NSW native title claim |
| Published: November 28, 2007, 11:50 pm |
| Tags: Community And Society, Indigenous, Land Rights, Woodenbong 2476 |
| A 1,000-square-kilometre parcel of land in the north of New South Wales has been legally recognised as belonging to the Githabul people. |
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| NSW 'addressing' Aboriginal land claims backlog |
| Published: November 28, 2007, 11:42 pm |
| Tags: Community And Society, Indigenous, Land Rights, States And Territories, Australia, Nsw |
| New South Wales Lands Minister Tony Kelly has defended the length of time it is taking his department to finalise Aboriginal land claims. |
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| Claimants to cite cultural ties to sea in fisheries case |
| Published: December 4, 2007, 4:25 am |
| Tags: Community And Society, Indigenous, Land Rights, States And Territories, Law Crime And Justice, Courts And Trials, Rural, Fishing Aquaculture, Australia, Act, Canberra 2600, Darwin 0800 |
| Lawyers for Northern Territory traditional owners are expected to argue in the High Court tomorrow that the traditional owners should control access to waters in intertidal zones because of a close cultural connection to the sea. |
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| Blue Mud claim nothing to do with fishing rights, court told |
| Published: December 4, 2007, 9:14 pm |
| Tags: Community And Society, Indigenous, Land Rights, Law Crime And Justice, Courts And Trials, Fishing Aquaculture, Australia, Canberra 2600, Darwin 0800, Yirrkala 0880 |
| Lawyer for a group of traditional owners from Eastern Arnhem Land have told the High Court the common law public right to fish does not affect their claim to control access to tidal waters. |
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| NT Govt to appeal native title ruling |
| Published: December 21, 2007, 3:00 am |
| Tags: Indigenous, Land Rights, States And Territories, Law Crime And Justice, Courts And Trials, Rights, Native Title |
| The Northern Territory Government has sought leave to appeal to the High Court of Australia against a native title ruling that is seen as a test case for all Northern Territory towns. |
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| Disagreeing about Dissent in PRC |
| Published: March 4, 2008, 2:15 am |
| Tags: Business Economy, East Asia, Law, Politics, Ccp, China, Dissent, Land Redistribution, Land Rights, Prc, Urbanization |
| power to reclassify rural land as industrial or urban lies with government officials, who derive much of their official revenues (not to mention illicit personal income) from selling reclassified land. While peasants do not have to pay for their 30-year leases, they are allowed to sublet their land, which provides huge scope for officials to |
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| Intervention 'a smokescreen for land grab' |
| Published: May 24, 2008, 7:40 pm |
| Tags: Community And Society, Indigenous, Indigenous Protocols, Land Rights, Australia, Nsw, Sydney 2000 |
| A delegate at an anti-intervention conference being held in Sydney this weekend says the general feeling is that the intervention is all about taking land away from Indigenous people. |
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| Green groups push to protect Kakadu uranium deposit |
| Published: June 2, 2008, 7:02 pm |
| Tags: Industry, Indigenous, Land Rights, Environment, Nuclear Issues, Uranium Mining, Darwin 0800, Jabiru 0886 |
| Environmentalists have launched a campaign to have the $5 billion Koongarra uranium deposit formally incorporated into Kakadu National Park. |
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| Borroloola owners call for compensation |
| Published: June 13, 2008, 8:10 am |
| Tags: Business Economics And Finance, Industry, Mining, Indigenous, Land Rights, Environment, Government And Politics, Federal State Issues |
| Traditional owners call for compensation for land taken by the expansion of Xstrata's McArthur River zinc mine. |
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