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Two of Queensland’s national parks, including one just off Brisbane, have been renamed to acknowledge their traditional owners.

One of southeast Queenslands best-known national parks has been renamed in a move by the state government to make it reflective of its cultural and historical significance. The Courier-Mail can reveal Moreton Island National Park will now officially be known as Gheebulum Coonungai (Moreton Island) National Park - which means lightnings playground. Camooweal Caves National Park, north of Mount Isa, has also been renamed and will now be called Wiliyan-ngurru National Park. Environment Minister...

One of southeast Queenslands best-known national parks has been renamed in a move by the state government to make it reflective of its cultural and historical significance. The Courier-Mail can reveal Moreton Island National Park will now officially be known as Gheebulum Coonungai (Moreton Island) National Park - which means lightnings playground. Camooweal Caves National Park, north of Mount Isa, has also been renamed and will now be called Wiliyan-ngurru National Park. Environment Minister...

Court of Appeal rules Lake Victoria traditional owner has right to make historic compensation claim MonMonday 15 Maraura Paakantyi elder Dorothy Lawson has ancestral claims to the area around Lake Victoria. ( Print text only Cancel She might not be a household name like Eddie Mabo, but Dorothy Lawson has spent years quietly fighting for the right to have the ownership of her traditional homeland legally recognised. WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article ...

Two of Queensland’s national parks, including one just off Brisbane, have been renamed to acknowledge their traditional owners.

Aboriginal community tensions grow following SA parliamentary inquiry proposal SunSunday 14 FebFebruary 2021 at 2:40am The group of Aboriginal leaders believe the proposed inquiry suggests "Aboriginal people … are less capable of managing their own affairs". ( Share Print text only Cancel A group of Aboriginal leaders has warned that a parliamentary inquiry into Aboriginal governance in South Australia risks causing "great harm to individuals, tearing families apart and damaging communities"....

Melbourne, Australia – The image is striking. Draped in a possum-skin cloak Senator Lidia Thorpe entered her first day in the Australian Federal parliament last September with her right fist raised in a Black Power salute. In her left hand, she carried a stick engraved with 441 stripes representing the number of Indigenous people to die in custody since a landmark Royal Commission in 1991. Thorpe tells Al Jazeera she raised her fist “as a sign of resistance and as a sign of our struggle and...

The UNSW report found there were delays in responding to issues raised by the independent monitoring system, which was set up to protect the environmental and cultural interests in the area, with the mine site operator Glencore Australia, and the NT mining regulator failing to act quickly to mitigate these risks, or failing to take action on recommendations altogether. The NT government recently approved an expansion of the mine, despite the authority responsible for the protection of Aborigina...

Traditional owners fighting against the construction of a controversial whale centre on Stradbroke Island plan to be arrested as part of a last-ditch attempt to stop the project starting this week. Dozens of people have pitched tents at the Point Lookout site in protest of the development which has divided the island community. A tent embassy has been set up at Headland Park on North Stradbroke Island to protest a proposed whale centre. Picture: Stuart Quinn The project is being led by the...

Fortescue Metals Group (Fortescue) continues its longstanding commitment to Aboriginal procurement and delivery of benefits for its Native Title...