Taungurung Aboriginal corporation’s Victorian land agreement in doubt after court ruling

A Victorian Aboriginal corporation is fighting to salvage its $34 million settlement with the government, after the Federal Court found significant legal errors occurred during the registration of the land deal which underpins it.

The finding has highlighted long-running tensions over the Taungurung people’s 20,210-square-kilometre Indigenous Land Use Agreement (ILUA), which stretches across the central Victorian towns of Kilmore, Seymour and Alexandra,…