Indigenous Australian Land and Sea Rights Journal

01/03/2026

From flattened echidnas to koalas ‘finished off with a hard, sharp blow to the skull’, the inexorable rollout of colossal green energy projects in Queensland hides a dirty secret few are talking about

11/09/2023

A synthesis of Aboriginal memory culture and research of written records in the fight for Native Title

29/05/2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfh5ErqKbHY

At the end of the frontier settlement wars on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula in the mid-1800s there were just seven Nauo people left alive.

Last week at Coffin Bay about 150 descendants and friends celebrated an historic return to their country, and a formal acknowledgement that they were the first people of the area.

Nauo elder Jody Miller, 55, didn't think he'd live to see the day his people would gain access to their lands.

"The lower Eyre Peninsula is a very significant and cultural place for Nauo people," he said.

"We are the caretakers of this land where we camp, fish, hunt, gather and share our stories that extend across Australia."

He remembers sitting down with his mother and Aunty Marlene Weetra Heights 32 years ago talking about pursuing Native Title.

"It's been a long journey," he said.

The Native Title area includes popular tourism destinations Coffin Bay and Greenly Beach and the Nauo hope to be able to help protect the areas and capitalise on tourism and cultural opportunties.

At the end of the frontier settlement wars on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula in the mid-1800s there were just seven Nauo people left alive.Last week at Cof...

16/05/2023

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/court-rejects-native-title-defence-for-nsw-aboriginal-man-over-illegal-abalone-haul/ar-AA1beHBR?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=640afa8621194f848804ddc7b41f0ad2&ei=43

A magistrate finds an Aboriginal man caught fishing abalone is not protected by native title because he harvested them for a party to which non-Aboriginal people were invited.

06/03/2023

The ancient women's story of the Seven Sisters will be "destroyed" if a proposed nuclear waste facility proceeds, Barngarla elders say ahead of their Federal Court case.

02/12/2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB6l7P35GSM

The future of a multi-billion-dollar offshore gas project is in doubt after a new Federal Court ruling.Subscribe: http://ab.co/1svxLVE Read more here: https...

30/11/2022

The first joint native title claim from traditional owners on the Australian mainland and in the Torres Strait will cover land and more than 2 million hectares of water.

26/11/2022

First Nations challenge over Galilee mine approval succeeds in land court, but final decision rests with state government

16/11/2022

Sometimes it takes individual action to start a movement. Tasmania's Aboriginal land council asked locals to consider returning private land to traditional owners. One Tasmanian couple handed over more than half of their property. Ellen Coulter reports.

Sometimes it takes individual action to start a movement. Tasmania's Aboriginal land council asked locals to consider returning private land to traditional o...

15/11/2022

Tiwi Islanders have pledged to keep fighting a $6 billion dollar gas development even if energy giant Santos succeeds in an attempt to overturn a landmark ruling that forced it to stop drilling.