Denise Hampton has spent years working to return ancestral land to Aboriginal people, but she fears a proposed law could make that nearly impossible. She has worked in western New South Wales for the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Indigenous land council has again called for proposed legal changes around how crown land is allocated to be scrapped, saying ...

Two recent court decisions have brought renewed attention to the question of whether Aboriginal title can apply to privately owned (or “fee simple”) land. These cases provide different answers to this ...

Flash protests against the surprise bill forced a delay and further negotiations. But opponents say their core concerns still remain.

Changes to a law allowing the transfer of government land into Indigenous ownership have passed NSW parliament, creating a new barrier to land claims that peak bodies have described as a "regression." ...

The chair of the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council (NSWALC) says a decision to grant Aboriginal land rights over a disused club could pave the way for expediting around 30,000 land claims across ...

Only a year after the 46,000 year-old sacred Aboriginal site Juukan Gorge was destroyed by Rio Tinto, the West Australian Legislative Council in Perth will pass an Aboriginal Heritage Bill that puts ...

The councils’ relationships with the Minns government have plummeted ahead of proposed reforms to the land claims system heading to parliament next week. The NSW Aboriginal Land Council, which ...