Native Title Amendment Act News Today

Are we finally seeing action on Aboriginal water justice?   There’s a famous image from 1975 of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam pouring red earth into the hands of Gurindji leader, Vincent Lingiari, as a symbolic gesture of returning land back to the Gurindji people. It’s a powerful image and represents an important turning point in Australian land rights policy — a point when the federal government finally started to acknowledge that this nation state has been built on stolen land and that...