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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.
Key points:
- The decision places the Taungurung land agreement at risk of being deregistered entirely
- Objectors claim the agreement interferes with their sovereign rights as separate Aboriginal nations
- The Taungurung Land and Waters Council says it welcomes further scrutiny of the agreement
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,…
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