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The Gomeroi people have lost their bid to protect significant areas of Aboriginal cultural heritage within the footprint of the Shenhua Watermark open-cut coalmine on the Liverpool Plains in north-west New South Wales.
Gomeroi custodian Dolly Talbott was suing
Forty-five years ago, on 11 November 1975, prime minister Gough Whitlam drove to Yarralumla, sat down, attempted to call an election, and was dismissed by the governor general, Sir John Kerr.
Later that day Whitlam stood on the
There are 37,000 unresolved Aboriginal land claims in New South Wales awaiting determination by the government, including the first claim lodged under the land rights act in 1984. The backlog has been described as “a national disgrace” and a form
A judge has told the home affairs minister, Peter Dutton, to make a decision in an immigration case by midday on Friday or he will be charged with contempt of court.
Dutton could be arrested and jailed if he