Senate should not reward Brandis’ native title bill scam


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MEDIA RELEASE 9 May 2017 Proper consultation with Indigenous Leaders needed Adani shouldn’t determine Native Title reform agenda  The Attorney General George Brandis has cut corners and conducted a shabby consultation process on the Native Title Bill to be debated in the Senate this Wednesday, failing to include Traditional Owners across Australia, say Wangan and […]

May 9, 2017

Adani’s ‘final hurdle’ is W&J’s rights


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The Deputy Prime Minister, Barnaby Joyce, on behalf of the Government and a host of pro-Adani interests, continues to propagate the lie that all that is needed for Adani to overcome its ‘final hurdle’ – the rights of Wangan and Jagalingou people – is for the Native Title Act amendment bill to be passed in […]

May 7, 2017

Mundine reduces Aboriginal land rights and First Nations treaties to ‘a fantasy business transaction’


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    In his opinion piece, “Activists undermine principles of self-determination” [1], 20 April 2017, Warren Mundine makes exaggerated, false and misleading comments. As his views still gain considerable national attention as the former head of the Prime Minister’s Indigenous Advisory Council [2], it is necessary for us to respond. While we agree that “making your own decisions […]

April 24, 2017

Adani faces strong Indigenous fight despite s66B court outcome


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  Members of the Wangan and Jagalingou Traditional Owners Council say there is nothing in today’s court decision on the Native Title Act Section 66B application that will stop them in their fight against Adani in the courts. Senior spokesperson for the Wangan and Jagalingou (W&J) Traditional Owners Council, and member of the existing Applicant, […]

April 12, 2017