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Sunday, November 18

Concern for 'disturbing' funding cuts to Aboriginal services

South Australian Aboriginal leaders have warned “disturbing” measures announced in the State Budget – including ending a native title grant and a $6 million funding cut to the Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation bureaucracy – will result in further disadvantage and challenges for Aboriginal groups.

"Our ancestors will be smiling": Kaurna people gain native title rights

Kaurna people have been granted native title rights over the Adelaide Plains and metropolitan area in the first such claim to be accepted in an Australian capital city.

Traditional owners are unconvinced by changes to the Aboriginal Heritage Act.

Minister rejects nuclear dump spectre in Aboriginal heritage overhaul

The State Government insists changes to the Aboriginal Heritage Act pushed through parliament last week will have “absolutely no impact whatsoever” on the debate over a potential future nuclear waste dump, which indigenous communities fear could end up on traditional lands.

Native title granted on land where Burke and Wills died

Members of a South Australian Aboriginal community say they are “overwhelmed and excited” after the Federal Court yesterday granted them native title rights over around 40,000 square kilometres in the state’s far-north east.