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
Council members from the Northern Land Council’s seven regions came together in Jabiru this week to decide on the leadership of the NLC for the next three years.
Larrakia Elders Bill Risk and Helen Secretary are appealing to the federal Minister of the Environment and Water to safeguard the Stokes Hill sacred site against damage and desecration.
Traditional owners, SunCable and the Northern Land Council reached a historic multi-generational 70-year agreement to build a 12,000-hectare solar farm on Powell Creek Station.
Publications
NLC, CLC and Anindilyakwa Land councils joint submission into the Environment Protection Reform Bill 2025
The NLC's Annual Report 2024-25 provides a comprehensive account of its performance from 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025 in accordance with its obligations under the Aboriginal Land Rights (NT) Act 1976 (Cth), the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth), the Aboriginal Land Act 1978 (NT) and the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 (Cth)
The NLC Corporate Plan provides information about the significant activities which the NLC will undertake over the four years, 2025 - 26 to 2027/28.
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 across the Northern Territory.
Australia's oldest Aboriginal newspaper, telling stories from remote Aboriginal Lands.
LAND RIGHTS NEWS STORIES
Australia's oldest Aboriginal newspaper, telling stories from remote Aboriginal lands across the Northern Territory.
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.