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 NLC congratulates Anthony Albanese and the Australian Labor Party on their return to Federal Government, and looks forward to working with the Albanese government on progressing the National Agreements on Closing the Gap and listening to First Nations voices.
Traditional owners are united in calling out the Territory government’s ill-conceived and rushed changes that move it ever closer to an anti-democratic regime pursuing development at any cost.
Northern Land Council Chair Matthew Ryan has denounced the NT Government’s proposed amendments to the Northern Territory Sacred Sites Act 1989, saying the changes prioritise development over the protection of the Territory’s most important cultural heritage assets.
Publications
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.
Territory Coordinator Bill - Submissions to the Legislative Scrutiny Committee
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.