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The battle for Sea Country legal rights Australian National Maritime Museum

What is Blue Mud Bay? In July 2008, Australia's High Court ruled traditional owners had exclusive access to waters which fell within the boundaries of land covered by the Aboriginal Land Rights Act. The landmark decision was described as the most significant ruling for Aboriginal land owners since the High Court's Mabo decision.


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On 29 July 2020 the NLC and the NT Government signed the Blue Mud Bay Action Plan. Aboriginal Affairs Minister Selena Uibo, NLC chair Samuel Bush-Blanasi, Chief Minister Michael Gunner and NLC CEO Marion Marion Scrymgour. In July 2008 the High Court of Australia, in the Blue Mud Bay case, found that Traditional Aboriginal Owners have the right.


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NT Traditional Owners gain more say on homelands to mark historic Blue Mud Bay anniversary. Callan Morse - August 7, 2022. news. The Northern Territory Government has confirmed a Local Decision Making Agreement for East Arnhem Land's Blue Mud Bay Region after recent meetings with local homelands leaders. The announcement coincides with the 14th.


Blue Mud Bay History Northern Land Council

Blue Mud Bay is a large shallow bay on the Eastern coast of Arnhem land in the Northern Territory. It has become well known for its relationship to the Blue Mud Bay High Court of Australia Decision concerning the ownership of fishing rights in tidal waters on Aboriginal land.


Satellite image of Blue Mud Bay, in northeast Arnhem Land. Satellite image, Satelite image

Blue Mud Bay is a large, shallow, partly enclosed bay on the eastern coast of Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory of Australia, facing Groote Eylandt on the western side of the Gulf of Carpentaria. It lies 580 km (360 mi) east-south-east of Darwin in the Arnhem Coast bioregion.


Blue Mud Bay What you need to know about Aboriginal people's hope to control intertidal zone

Blue Mud Bay is a large, shallow, partly enclosed bay on the eastern coast of Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory of Australia, facing Groote Eylandt on the western side of the Gulf of Carpentaria. It lies 580 km (360 mi) east-south-east of Darwin in the Arnhem Coast bioregion.


Blue Mud Bay History Northern Land Council

This article focuses on the pattern of sea ownership in the north of Blue Mud Bay in Arnhem Land, north Australia. Detailed research into the specificities of sea and land ownership in the region has revealed a more complex pattern than has previously been supposed to exist.


Blue Mud Bay History Northern Land Council

The Blue Mud Bay Decision on the Intertidal Zone By Sean Brennan. A long legal battle by Yolngu traditional owners in the Northern Territory (NT) to control the entry by fishing boats to coastal Aboriginal land has ended with a landmark victory in the High Court.


Blue Mud Bay Traditional Owners navigating homeland... NIT

Morphy, H. (2004) 'An Anthropological Report on the Yolngu people of Blue Mud Bay, in relation to their Claim to native Title in the Land and the Sea, prepared on behalf of the claimants at the instruction of the Northern Land Council', Document held in the Northern Land Council library. Google Scholar


Blue Mud Bay Action deal will protect Aboriginal sea country rights Northern Land Council

Baniyala. Coordinates: 13°12′S 136°14′E. Bäniyala is a tiny community of Aboriginal Australian people, known as a homeland, situated on Blue Mud Bay in the Gulf of Carpentaria in East Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia, located 210 kilometres (130 mi) from Nhulunbuy. It is home to about 150 Yolŋu people.


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The Blue Mud Bay decision has been described as the most significant ruling for Aboriginal land owners since the High Court's Mabo decision. (Tim McDonald) No-go zones to remain in some popular areas


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Subject: Blue Mud Bay Download file Share on: The end of December 2022 marks a significant milestone implementing the Blue Mud Bay Action Plan following the historic 2008 High Court decision. "Traditional Owners have been very patient," Chairman of the Northern Land Council, Samuel Bush-Blanasi said.


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Bäniyala: where culture thrives on the shores of Blue Mud Bay Campsites at Dholuwuy BOOK NOW Rooms at VOQ (service providers only) BOOK NOW Tents at Stingray (group bookings only) BOOK NOW To keep people and country safe, visitors must have appropriate permission to visit Baniyala. Apply for an NLC permit


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More than 10 years on from the high court decision on Blue Mud Bay - which gave Aboriginal traditional owners control over who fishes in their coastal waters, and sparked a bitter battle with.


Critical milestone approaches for Blue Mud Bay Northern Land Council

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Back to Baniyala and Blue Mud Bay Creative Cowboy Films

The most recent of those agreements — known as the Blue Mud Bay Implementation Action Plan — was signed two years ago, and included a $10 million commitment from the government to help the NLC.

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