"A native title system in crisis": Marshall calls for evidence to spark judicial review

A group of Aboriginal and community leaders is calling for a “royal commission” into the native title system in South Australia – and Premier Steven Marshall says he is “prepared to consider any evidence” to justify a potential judicial review.

Kaurna Yerta a step closer to finding a home in the city

Two years after the Kaurna people’s landmark native title victory in the Federal Court, the custodians of Tarntanya Adelaide are hoping to move into their first official city home at the North Adelaide Railway Station.

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Court rejects indigenous action over SA nuclear dump

The Federal Court has dismissed a bid by a group of native title holders to have a say on the possible location of a nuclear waste dump on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula.

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.

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.