Tag Archives: Native Title

Group looks into taxation of native title

By Tracker, March 19, 2013

NATIONAL: A Treasury working group will look at the tax treatment of native title payments after concerns were raised the windfalls could be spent without thinking about how best to benefit future generations.

Dept hampered native title inquiry: report

By Tracker, March 19, 2013

NATIONAL: A parliamentary committee has blasted the attorney-general’s department for “hampering” an inquiry into native title reforms.

Posted in General News, News | Also tagged Mark Dreyfus, Native Title Amendment Bill, Nicola Roxon, Trish Crossin | 1 Comment

Inquiry ticks native title changes

By Tracker, February 26, 2013

NATIONAL: A parliamentary inquiry has given the nod to draft laws that give the Federal Court responsibility for mediation of native title claims.

Posted in Breaking News, News | Also tagged Native Title Tribunal | Leave a comment

Federal Court to take on native title role

By Tracker, February 13, 2013

NATIONAL: The Federal Court is a step closer to being in charge of mediation of native title claims after legislation passed the lower house.

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Qld’s Tagalaka people win Native Title

By Tracker, December 11, 2012

QUEENSLAND: The Tagalaka people are set to have two long-standing Native Title claims over Queensland’s Gulf Country formally recognised.

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Kowanyama win Qld native title claim

By Tracker, December 5, 2012

QUEENSLAND: The Kowanyama peoples have won native title rights to more than 16,000 square kilometres of pastoral property in far north Queensland.

Posted in Breaking News, News | Also tagged Cape York Land Council, Kowanyama, Richie Ahmat | Leave a comment

Roxon introduces bills to amend Native Title

By Tracker, November 28, 2012

NATIONAL: Legislative changes to native title will ensure more claims are settled through negotiation rather than drawn-out litigation, Attorney-General Nicola Roxon has told parliament.

Posted in Breaking News, News | Also tagged Land Rights, Nicola Roxon | Leave a comment

Native title is flawed: activists

By Tracker, November 26, 2012

QUEENSLAND: Mining companies are robbing Indigenous communities of a decent share of the mineral wealth because the native title system is flawed, Aboriginal activists say.

Posted in Breaking News, News | Also tagged Land Rights, Wayne Wharton | Leave a comment

Twiggy’s FMG accused of rigging Yindjibarndi meeting

By Amy McQuire, November 21, 2012

FMG's Andrew Forrest (left) speaks while Kerry Savas, a lawyer formerly working with FMG, watches on in a screen grab from the video "Great Native Title swindle". Mr Savas has come out and alleged the meeting was a set-up.

NATIONAL: Mining magnate Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue Metals Group (FMG) had a PR battle on its hands when footage of a controversial native title meeting in the Pilbara was released last year. Now a lawyer who formerly worked with FMG has revealed the meeting was indeed a set-up, and that FMG paid attendees who voted at [...]

Posted in General News, News | Also tagged ABC 7:30 Report, Andrew Forrest, Fortescue Metals Group, Kerry Savas, Mining, Pilbara, Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation | 1 Comment

Jinibara people win Qld native title claim

By Tracker, November 21, 2012

QUEENSLAND: The Jinibara people have won native title rights to more than 700 square kilometres of land in southeast Queensland in an historic court judgment.

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