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Cape York deal seals land rights By The Courier-Mail
INDIGENOUS communities will be able to develop agricultural, grazing and tourism ventures across parts of Cape York under an historic land use agreement.

Native title recognition is opposed
By Daily Telegraph
FIFTEEN years after the High Court's Mabo decision, Australian governments are actively and systematically opposing the recognition of native title, prominent indigenous leader Mick Dodson said yesterday.

Colonial ways `slaughtering' Aborigines
By The Australian
INDIGENOUS people were being "slaughtered" by the colonial imperative to steal land, strip Aboriginal culture, and demoralise black people, Mick Dodson declared yesterday.

Cape native title `crusade' won By The Australian
THE 17-year native title fight for land in Cape York was finally won yesterday, prompting Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson to declare indigenous welfare and social reform the new battleground.

Something to dance about
By The Cairns Post
NATIVE Title cases have come at huge legal cost with a senior Aboriginal leader claiming as much as $3 billion may have already been spent in the 15 years since the Mabo decision.

Report still on hold
By Centralian Advocate
THE release of an indigenous child sex abuse report has been delayed a further two weeks -- making it six weeks after it was delivered to the Territory Government.

New tours to target art-lovers
By Centralian Advocate
THE NT Government has launched a new Aboriginal art tour initiative aimed at attracting art-lovers to the NT. Tourism Minister Paul Henderson said the move would set the Northern Territory apart on the world stage for lovers of Aboriginal ...