Jay Weatherill: time to review Australia's oldest land rights laws
Nation's oldest land rights laws under review
November 20, 2008 17:06:00
Australia's oldest land rights legislation will be reviewed to ensure Aboriginal people are benefiting from changes to the way their land is managed.
The Land Rights Trust Act was established in South Australia 42 years ago, the first legislation of its kind in Australia.
New Justice Department statistics reveal Northern Territorians drank 4 million litres of pure alcohol in the last financial year.
The curator of a new exhibition on Indigenous fibre art hopes it will raise the profile of the contemporary works.
Gold Coast full-back Preston Campbell has won the NRL's Ken Stephen Medal for his tireless work with Indigenous communities.
Peter Costello says Cabinet decided that all or none of them would take part in Sydney's 2000 reconciliation walk.
The Catholic Bishop of Broome has asked the Premier, Colin Barnett, for a "stay of execution" over a proposed gas processing hub on the Dampier Peninsula.
A German medical museum will return the skulls of 18 Indigenous Australians that were taken from Australia more than a century ago.
Rodeo riders are heading to Palm Island for the Aboriginal community's first rodeo in 32 years.
Police have described as "appalling" a court decision to return two alleged child sex offenders to a remote West Australian community where the alleged offences occurred.
The Speaker of the Queensland Parliament, Mike Reynolds, has lodged a petition calling for a royal commission into recent events on Palm Island, off Townsville.
The West Australian Government has reappointed former Governor John Sanderson as an adviser after the previous government allowed his contract to lapse.
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