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Funding backs community-led visions across the Northern Territory
Five projects across remote and regional Northern Territory communities have rec...
Nicole Brown 31 Aug 2026
Yindjibarndi Ngurra Aboriginal Corporation lodges Full Court appeal in native title compensation case
Yindjibarndi Ngurra Aboriginal Corporation has lodged an appeal with the Full Co...
Giovanni Torre 26 Aug 2026
Exclusive: Local Council fails to consult Traditional Owners on clearing of Aboriginal heritage site
The City of Busselton in south west Western Australia has paused a project to cl...
Dianne Bortoletto 17 Aug 2026
Karri Karrak signs landmark heritage agreement with Talison at world's biggest lithium mine
The operator of the world's largest hard rock lithium mine has signed a cultural...
Reece Harley 31 Jul 2026
Renewables company destroys Indigenous rock shelter
Key points:- ACEREZ destroyed an Indigenous rock shelter in Central West NSW des...
Callan Morse 26 May 2026
Yued Aboriginal Corporation reaches major heritage protection agreement with nbn Co Ltd

Yued Aboriginal Corporation have reached a Yued Heritage Protection Agreement with nbn Co for the infrastructure company's activities on Yued Boodja.

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Jan 5, 2026
Nyamina hits the seas to protect World Heritage listed Murujuga

Protection of one of the world's richest and ancient collections of engraved rock art has stretched from land to sea, with the arrival of a new Ranger vessel to preserve sea Country in the World Herit...

David Prestipino David Prestipino Nov 28, 2025
Federal heritage changes could quell clashes over Country

A framework to verify connection to Country for cultural heritage claims could be introduced as part of an overhaul of Commonwealth protection laws.

David Prestipino David Prestipino Nov 11, 2025
From rock art to sea turtles: Murujuga women rangers lead protection of World Heritage landscape

On a women's site of red rock and wind-carved outcrops on the Burrup Peninsula in WA's Pilbara region, two young Murujuga women rangers walk among the ancient stone.

Natasha Clark Natasha Clark Oct 23, 2025
WA’s Nyiyaparli kids help preserve Aboriginal Language with new smart phone game

No one's telling them to 'put the phone down', because every time they play, they're helping save a critically endangered language. A unique Pilbara story has travelled around the world; a story of cu...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Oct 13, 2025
Indigenous business leaders back Larrakia Custodians against sacred site decision

A proposed hotel development on Darwin's waterfront has triggered strong opposition from Larrakia Traditional Owners and Indigenous business leaders, who warn that recent legislative changes have unde...

Reece Harley Reece Harley Sep 26, 2025
Yued Aboriginal Corporation reaches heritage protection agreement with Chalice Mining

Yued Aboriginal Corporation have executed a Yued Heritage Protection Agreement with minerals explorer Chalice Mining Ltd for the latest of the company's tenements on Yued Boodja.

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Sep 10, 2025
Big miners, TOs back next-gen cultural heritage leaders

A new multi-million-dollar training program will boost the numbers of Indigenous people working in cultural heritage management. The groundbreaking national training initiative by the ARC Training Cen...

David Prestipino David Prestipino Aug 25, 2025
Relationship between Rio Tinto, Traditional Owners continues to evolve following Juukan Gorge destruction

Rio Tinto will continue modernising agreements and negotiations with Traditional Owner groups across its Pilbara iron ore operations. Outgoing chief executive Jakob Stausholm, who makes way for curren...

David Prestipino David Prestipino Aug 1, 2025
Yued Aboriginal Corporation signs heritage protection agreement with clean energy developer Neoen Australia

A Yued Heritage Protection Agreement with a third Renewable Energy Developer in 2025 demonstrates the growing demand WA's clean energy transition is putting on the State's Traditional Owners to respon...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Jun 16, 2025
Yued Aboriginal Corporation signs heritage agreement with Carbon Positive Australia

A new Yued Heritage Protection Agreement with Carbon Positive Australia establishes processes by which consideration is given to activities planned by project proponents, and gives non-Aboriginal peop...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Jun 6, 2025
PKKP Aboriginal Corporation strikes agreement with Rio Tinto to protect cultural heritage

Five years after the destruction of a rockshelter at Juukan Gorge, the PKKP Aboriginal Corporation has signed a Co-Management Agreement with Rio Tinto.

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Jun 2, 2025
WA government announces overdue review of Native Title, cultural heritage processes

Consultation over Native Title and Aboriginal cultural heritage protection will be reviewed in Western Australia, two years after an embarrassing backflip on a failed attempt to modernise the system.

David Prestipino David Prestipino May 30, 2025
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