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Juru elder Randall Ross says the ceremony has been misused for profit.
The newly-elected LNP government looks set to wind up the Queensland Truth-Telling and Healing Inquiry and repeal the Path to Treaty legislation.
The First Nations ambassador has an allocated $350,000 travel allowance.
A slightly unusual Welcome to Country ceremony before the AFL semi-final last weekend has led One Nation leader Pauline Hanson to repeat her call to ban it.
Ken Wyatt, former Indigenous Australians Minister, also called for a shift away from diversity targets.
Representatives of the Barada, Kabalbara, and Yetimarala Peoples have fought the case for 10 years.
Under a proposed management plan, all recreational access to the lake bed will be banned out of respect for Arabana culture.
Just under 9 percent of Indigenous people—the only persons eligible to vote—chose to do so. The $10.3 million body will still be established.
The allegations detailed an unnamed player who was coerced by coaches to terminate the pregnancy of his partner to pursue his career.
The Queensland government plans to hand over the tiny town of Toobeah, southwest of Brisbane, to the Bigambul Native Title Aboriginal Corporation.
The High Court has ruled that a dredging project at a loading facility connected to the McArthur River Mine is also subject to native title.
The CEO and chair of the Anindilyakwa Land Council are co-directors of a company which received half of the royalties meant to alleviate poverty in the area.
The Environmental Defenders Office may lose federal funding after a judge found it had coached Indigenous witnesses.
The company took money from Centrelink for 16 years; now that it has collapsed, the federal government will spend almost $100 million on compensation.
Radicals are fomenting ill will towards communities with their actions, warns Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price
Australian legal lobbyists, the Environmental Defenders Office, were harshly criticised by a federal judge.
In the last few weeks, several of Australia’s most prominent organisations have revealed their stance on the national holiday.
One Indigenous organisation says council should be focused on ‘bigger issues’ rather than race-based politics.
‘The Australian flag is the one flag that we all want to actually stay flying,’ said Council Watch President Dean Hurlston.
Following the defeat of The Voice, some institutions are banning Welcome to Country ceremonies.
