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Queensland Pacific Metals executes key Cultural Heritage Management Agreement for TECH Project The company acknowledges the Bindal People as Traditional Owners and Custodians of the Lansdown site at Townsville and the agreement shows a commitment to ensuring Aboriginal Cultural Heritage is identified and managed. QPM project manager Stewart Hagan with Bindal People representatives at Lansdown Creek adjacent to the project site. Queensland Pacific Metals Ltd (ASX:QPM) (FRA:4EA) has e...

There is much ground to be made up in Australian schools in learning about the full gamut of our past. We must be better informed about all sides of our history.

Curriculum proposals deserve support, not another iteration of the history wars We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement The “history wars” were re-ignited last week when the Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority released its draft review of the national education curriculum for public consultation. It’s a complex document, covering every aspect of education from prep upwards, and many of its su...

The key to avoiding a repeat of Juukan Gorge Money can’t reverse the destruction, but better resources for groups looking after traditional owners’ rights will go a long way to ensuring this doesn’t happen again. Before it was destroyed by Rio Tinto, the Juukan Gorge site held evidence of human habitation dating back 46,000 years.   PKKP Aboriginal Corporation Save Share There’s a saying around Canberra that every parliamentary inquiry casts a villain, a victim and a hero...

  The directors of Thor Mining Plc ("Thor" or the "Company") (AIM, ASX: THR, OTCQB: THORF), the diversified resource company, are pleased to provide an update to the Mineral Resource Estimate of its 100% owned critical minerals tungsten asset, the Molyhil Project ("Molyhil"), in the Northern Territory of Australia.   Highlights: § The Molyhil Mineral Resource Estimate now comprises Measured, Indicated, and Inferred Mineral Resources totalling 4.4 million ...

McARTHUR RIVER MINE Reporter Keira Jenkins travelled to Borroloola and the land nearly 100km south of Darwin on which mining giant Glencore’s McArthur River mine continues to make controversy, with traditional owners facing the poisoning of their water and wildlife. “It is like a garden to Aboriginal people,” said Garawa elder Jack Green, who is now too scared of lead poisoning to fish in the river. Locals say the lead and zinc mine has had an enormous impact and warn that even after it c...

For locals, the river and its banks are like a garden, having provided sustenance for generations. It also has a strong spiritual significance for the local people. Gudanji woman Josie Davey and her husband Jack Green, a Garawa man, used to fish along the banks of the river, not far from town. Now the couple say they’re too worried to fish in their usual spots. “All we know is that there could be something in this water,” Mr Green told The Point. “We had a meeting here one time and they...

BlackRock World Mining Trust Plc - Final Results PR Newswire Annual Results Announcement (Article 4 Transparency Directive, DTR 4.1) for the year ended 31 December 2020 Performance record 536.34 522.00 2,3 3 3 ======== 1 The change in net assets reflects market movements, dividends paid and the buyback of ordinary shares into treasury during the year. 2 This is the difference between the share price and NAV per share with debt at par. Further details of the calculation of the discount...

In the media Productivity Commission report charts change in social housing provision The annual 2021 Productivity Commission report on government services and housing reveals that the ongoing long-term reduction in the number of public housing dwellings (17 February 2021). More... Victoria Designs and tender released for eighth vertical school Victoria will soon have another new vertical government school to address population growth across the inner city. The project has been funded by the L...

Time to enhance, not diminish our honours January 26, 2021 — 10.00pm Save Normal text size The Age, email letters@theage.com.au. Please include your home address and telephone number. MARGARET COURT Time to enhance, not diminish our honours Like many, I was saddened by Margaret Court’s AC. Court has already received an Order of Australia award recognising her service. As with at least two of last year’s awards she is a controversial figure with loudly advocated extremist opinions...