By Media Release earlier today the Northern Land Council (NLC) advised in relation to the employment of the Chief Executive Officer, Joe Martin-Jard, that: The Northern Land Council has announced that Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Joe Martin-Jard, is leaving the role, effective Friday.The NLC would like to take this opportunity to thank Mr Martin-Jard for [...]
Part Two: … and a crocodile called Elvis. Santos CEO Kevin Gallagher. Darwin, February 2024 By Bob Gosford In the first part of this seriesI looked at the recent Federal Court decision of Justice Charlesworth in Munkara v Santos NA Barossa Pty Ltd (No 3) [2024] (Munkara) and briefly explored the judicial history of principles [...]
Part One: Why Alderson v Northern Land Council (still) rules after forty years. Tiwi lead applicant Simon Munkara By Bob Gosford After two weeks of hearings in late December, in mid-January 2024 Justice Charlesworth of the Federal Court of Australia delivered her 258-page demolition of the application for a permanent injunction by three Tiwi Island [...]
A guest post by Nathan Evans* The Northern Territory Homelands Movement began in the 1970s and was a visible demonstration of Aboriginal people across the Northern Territory asserting their rights to determine their lives on their traditional lands. When first established, these homelands received almost no government services. The construction of physical infrastructure was left [...]
Bob Gosford This piece was first published in the Northern Land Council’s Land Rights News December 2023 edition and is a tribute to the long-serving member and Chairman of the Northern Land Council Dr Bush-Blanasi, who passed away after a short illness in November 2023. You can read more about Dr Bush-Blanasi’s life at previous [...]
Dr Bush-Blanasi 19-11-1961—12-11-2023 NT News, 14 November 2023 Long-time Northern Land Council chairman and 2023 NT Australian of theYear Dr Bush-Blanasi has passed away aged 61 following a short illness.He was surrounded by members of his extended family when he passedaway at Royal Darwin Hospital on Sunday. Dr Bush-Blanasi was a Yolngu man with country [...]
Northern Land Council – Statement on the passing of the NLC Chairman, Dr Bush-Blanasi The following is a statement released this morning by the Northern Land Council Today we mourn the loss of Dr Bush-Blanasi. His mother was a Yolngu woman from the Blue Mud Bay region and he was raised by a Mayili man [...]
In June 2023 the four Northern Territory Aboriginal land councils met to sign the Barunga Declaration which addresses all Australians and urges them to support a Voice to Parliament. More than 200 representatives of the Northern, Central, Tiwi and Anindilyakwa land councils gathered on the traditional lands of the Bagala clan group at Barunga, south-east [...]
Photo: University of Arizona Recent news that the good folks at the University of Arizona’s Institute for Resilience have extended their Southwest Monsoon Fantasy Forecast game for a third year got me thinking about how a local fantasy weather competition based on Top End weather might work. After all, Australia’s Top End has—arguably—some of the [...]
Lately there’s been a lot of people demanding more detail about the Uluru Statement From The Heart. Over the years I’ve collected a bunch of foundational documents made by Aboriginal people that have called for land rights, a Treaty, constitutional recognition, redress for past injustices and much more. It is no coincidence that many of [...]
