News & PUBLICATIONS
Our Land, Our Life, Our Stories - Welcome to our blog, a place to share stories from across the Top End of the Northern Territory. Check back in periodically to find new articles.
Media releases
The four Northern Territory land councils have gathered for the first time since 2020 to warn against making decisions about their people – more than a third of the NT’s population - without them.
Former NLC Chair, the late Dr Bush Blanasi AM has been named as a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) – General Division for his significant service to the Indigenous communities of the Northern Territory.
The NLC backs the growing calls for an independent body to investigate police misconduct, following the death of another young Aboriginal person in police custody.
Publications
Senate Order for Entity Contracts listing related to the period 1 July 2024 - 30 June 2025
Caring for Country Strategic plan for 2024 through to 2029.
The Northern Land Council's Submission to the Northern Territory Government Minister For Lands, Planning and the Environment on the Northern Territory Aboriginal Sacred Sites Legislation Amendment Bill 2025.
STORIES
LAND RIGHTS NEWS ISSUES
Australia's oldest Aboriginal newspaper, telling stories from remote Aboriginal lands across the Northern Territory.
Australia's oldest Aboriginal newspaper, telling stories from remote Aboriginal Lands.
Australia's oldest Aboriginal newspaper, telling stories from remote Aboriginal lands across the Northern Territory.
LAND RIGHTS NEWS STORIES
Deborah Jones is a Ngaliwurru/ Nungali woman who lives at Timber Creek. Her traditional land is Wanimin Yirijpirnti, in the upper Victoria River area.
Since the first agreement over Territory parks 30 years ago at Nitmiluk— between Traditional Owners and the NT Parks and Wildlife Commission—there has been little coordinated planning, often poor management, and mixed government response to Aboriginal peoples inclusion to park management.
Since 2021, the Northern Land Council’s Wagiman Rangers have been working closer with their communities, neighbouring Ranger groups, local non-Aboriginal land managers and land-owners and external consultants and scientists to establish a sustainable fire and land management regime throughout their traditional lands.