Council Rejects Indigenous Land Claim Over Multi-Million-Dollar Part of This City

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A couple visit a tourist area overlooking the Harbour Bridge in Sydney, Australia on June 28, 2021. Saeed Khan/AFP via Getty Images

A council has rejected an Aboriginal land claim over one of the wealthiest parts of Sydney.

The Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council, a representative Indigenous body working solely on lands rights issues, began its claim in 2009 over a $100 million segment of Mosman on Sydney’s north shore encompassing a 2,500 square metre parkland called Lawry Plunkett Reserve opposite Balmoral Beach.