The Guardian • Land Rights
Issue #2101
Australian companies exploit Ecuador’s Indigenous Lands
By 2022 Australian companies produced 40 per cent of the world’s metal resources, including South America’s. Between 2016 and 2017 Ecuador opened up a third...
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Issue #1977
Green ban lifted on Sydney heritage site
Despite a four-year campaign, Willow Grove and St George’s Terrace will be removed in accordance with the NSW state government’s plan to build the new Powerhouse Museum on the land.
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Issue #2038
DINGO
As the Albanese government pours billions of dollars of taxpayers’ money into fuelling the war in Ukraine it is offering the fossil fuel miners $500...
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Issue #2178
Greenland’s Inuit caught between Denmark and the USA
Recent protests and public campaigns in Copenhagen and Nuuk (Greenland’s capital), show Greenlanders are standing up against United States aggression, resenting the prospect of their...
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Issue #2116
Zapatista’s 30-year struggle
The announcement of the NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) agreement between Mexico, Canada and the USA came into force on 1 January 1994. That...
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Issue #2056
Burrup desecration
Could the destruction of priceless 40,000-year-old art work in the great land of Australia ever happen today? The deliberately planned Juukun cave explosion of 2020...
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Issue #2112
GREEN NOTES
After more than 4 decades of struggle the Mirarr traditional owners have won a ban on mining of Jabiluka uranium deposits. The Northern Territory government,...
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Issue #2010
DINGO
On 3rd June 1992 the High Court of Australia recognised that a group of Torres Strait Islanders, led by Eddie Mabo, held ownership of Mer...
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Issue #2141
GLOBAL BRIEFS
BRAZIL: Thousands of Indigenous people set up camps in Brasilia to defend their ancestral land rights and demand greater respect for Amazonian ecosystems. The ‘Free...
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Issue #2101
Sorry Day
Sunday 26 May 2024 marks seven years since the Uluru Statement from the Heart was issued by First Nations Peoples “from all points of the...
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Issue #2039
Invasion Day rallies demand “Treaty before Voice”
As many as 100,000 people took to the streets with rallies and marches in every state and territory on Invasion Day, 26th January. Protestors held...
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Issue #2079
“A shared future of justice”
STOLEN GENERATIONS The laws resulting in Aboriginal children being removed from their families traumatised many generations. The children were not only isolated from their families...
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Issue #2042
Talking About Land Rights
To sustain life people have to produce food, clothing, shelter and other necessities. The process of production takes place within the interaction between human society...
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Issue #2040
DINGO
“Exhausted,” “struggling to cope,” “let down,” “dangerous,” and “overwhelmed” is how nurses have described working conditions at the prestigious St Vincent’s Private Hospital in Darlinghurst...
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Issue #2108
Sunshine Coast ‘RAP-Up’
This year I attended a public flag raising event in Nambour as part of NAIDOC week. Various dignitaries where there, including local Indigenous Elders, and...
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Issue #2106
GLOBAL BRIEFS
HUNGARY: EU documents and reports from The Financial Times and Sputnik suggest that the EU is increasing pressure on Hungary to end its veto of...
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Issue #2138
Trump ensures white farmers get compensation in Zimbabwe
In January 2025 US President Donald Trump threatened to cut off funding to South Africa because of land confiscations, without citing evidence, Trump said that...
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Issue #2091
Save our Songlines
Mardudhunera woman, Federal Court victor and former Chair of the Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation, Raelene Cooper, has released her submission to the Federal government’s Offshore Petroleum...
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Issue #2132
Communist Party’s fight for Aboriginals
Members of the Sunshine Coast Branch of the CPA stumbled upon a statement from 1931 outlining the CPA’s position in solidarity with Aboriginal Australians. It...
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Issue #2050
“No empathy, no morals”
The following is a statement from Murujuga traditional custodians responding to the announcement today (25th April) that Perdaman will begin the immediate removal of sacred...
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Issue #2063
Mega-fracker now on site
Water is life. But right now, Tamboran Resources is on the fast track to frack the Northern Territory, and water is at risk of being...
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Issue #2106
Sunshine Coast native title win
The Sunshine Coast Branch of the CPA lies within Kabbi Kabbi country. At the recent National Education School held at Nambour in the Sunshine Coast...
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Issue #2073
I’ve seen so much history
I was just 17 when the ’67 referendum gave us the right to exist and to be counted in the place we’d always called home....
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Issue #2202
Garma debate sharpens focus on Closing the Gap
Discussions at the recent Garma Festival reinforce the need for governments to focus on implementing the National Agreement on Closing the Gap, rather than creating...
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Issue #2164
Queensland: ‘Right out of the Joh Bjelke-Petersen playbook’
The Crisafulli LNP government of Queensland has been heavily criticised for its stand on issues from Native Title Disputes, rejecting Human Rights Act recommendations, to...
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Issue #2138
A new paradigm for native title?
On the 12 March 2025, the High Court of Australia delivered its judgement regarding the case of Commonwealth of Australia v Yunupingu. This decision has...
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Issue #2144
Always was, always will be
Last year as the country’s racist elements turned up the hate by targeting Indigenous Welcome to Country ceremonies, Brendan Kerin from Sydney’s Local Aboriginal Land...
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Issue #2091
Timber Creek Propaganda
Timber Creek is little more than a pit stop in the Northern Territory. It is in the spotlight because it is next to Bradshaw, a...
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Issue #2170
NSW Hunter gas project a new low for Minns and Santos
Lock the Gate Alliance has condemned “in the strongest terms possible” NSW Premier Chris Minns’ threats to grant coal seam gas company Santos permission to...
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Issue #2127
The choices that Australia makes
If you go to the bluff at Kings Park in Boorloo/Perth, Australia, you can look out over the Swan River and enjoy a remarkable view....
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Issue #2177
Invasion Day
Boorloo (Perth) CPA comrades joined the crowd of nearly 2,000 protesters at the Boorloo invasion day rally. The speakers were impassioned and engaging, but 40...
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Issue #2122
A UN target to protect and restore 30 per cent of nature by 2030 will not be achieved in ocean environments until 2107 on current...
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Issue #2175
Invasion Day 2026
On 26 January, join with Indigenous people in their demands for land rights, treaty, and truth-telling! 26 January is an opportunity to strengthen the campaign...
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Issue #2149
Queensland: consultation fail
The Minjerribah Moorgumpin Elders in Council (MMEIC) are concerned that the Port of Brisbane has failed to conduct adequate consultation on the environmental and cultural...
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Issue #2176
Unhinged US – time to close the bases!
Pine Gap, 20 kilometres southeast of Alice Springs, was established in 1968 in conditions of great secrecy. Local people were told it was a space...
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Issue #2177
EDITORIAL
MOURNING We had a day of mourning. Then, not long after, we had a day of ‘celebration.’ There was a day of mourning for the...
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Issue #2120
WA government introduces exorbitant fee to lodge mining objections
The WA government has announced that they are imposing a large fee of $430 for West Australians to lodge objections to mining proposals, which has...
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Issue #2148
The Mabo decision at 33
3 June 2025 marks the 33rd Anniversary of the first formal recognition of Indigenous land rights in Australia, as part of National Reconciliation Week. The...
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