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First Nations Australians have expressed their interpretations of traditional custodianship through academic writing, political advocacy, traditional stories, poetry and music. Numerous Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures share an understanding that, contrary to Western views on land ownership , the land "owns us".
Nyangumarta Warrarn IPA, Eighty Mile Beach: Nyangumarta: 2015: Yamatji Marlpa Aboriginal Corporation [104] Nyul Nyul Rangers: Middle Dampier Peninsula, Beagle Bay: Nyul Nyul: Kimberley Land Council [105] Parnngurr Rangers (women's and men's groups) Great Sandy, Little Sandy and Gibson Deserts. Martu: Kanyirninpa Jukurrpa [96] Parnngurr Women's ...
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984 (Cth), is an Act passed by the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia to enable the Commonwealth Government to intervene and, where necessary, preserve and protect areas and objects of particular significance to Australia's Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander peoples from being desecrated or injured.
Indigenous Australian traditional custodianship; Jindyworobak Movement, a white Australian literary movement inspired by Aboriginal culture; Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages, a digital archive of literature in endangered languages of the Northern Territory; Lizard Island#Mangrove Beach, a 2024 pottery finding; Stone tool#Aboriginal ...
On 17 July 2020 the Queensland Government introduced a bill in parliament to legally recognise the Torres Strait Islander practice of traditional adoptions (kupai omasker), [12] which was passed as the Meriba Omasker Kaziw Kazipa Act 2020 ("For Our Children's Children") on 8 September 2020.
The South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council (SWALSC) is the organisation that represents the Noongar people, the Aboriginal Australians of the southwest corner of Western Australia.
Today, Indigenous sovereignty generally relates to "inherent rights deriving from spiritual and historical connections to land". [1] Indigenous studies academic Aileen Moreton-Robinson has written that the first owners of the land were ancestral beings of Aboriginal peoples, and "since spiritual belief is completely integrated into human daily activity, the powers that guide and direct the ...
Activities on the islands are quite traditional, with fishing being the major economic activity. [2] To travel to the remote islands (other than Thursday and Horn Islands) permission is required from the Torres Strait Island Regional Council. [3] The five major island groups of the Torres Strait include: Northern Division (Boigu, Dauan, Saibai)