Taungurung Aboriginal corporation's Victorian land agreement in doubt after court ruling
FriFriday 19
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FriFriday 19
The 2018 Taungurung agreement covers land spanning central and Alpine districts of Victoria.
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A Victorian Aboriginal corporation is fighting to salvage its $34 million settlement with the government, after the Federal Court found significant legal errors occurred during the registration of the land deal which underpins it.
Key points:
Objectors claim the agreement interferes with their sovereign rights as separate Aboriginal nations
The Taungurung Land and Waters Council says it welcomes further scrutiny of the agreement
The finding has highlighted long-running tensions over the Taungurung people's 20,210-square-kilometre Indigenous Land Use Agreement (ILUA), which stretches across the central Victorian towns of Kilmore, Seymour and Alexandra, and up to Euroa and the Ovens Valley tourist town of Bright.