The High Court has dismissed an appeal claiming the alcohol management plan on the Queensland Aboriginal community of Palm Island breached the Racial Discrimination Act.

A native title group in Western Australia's Pilbara has inked a land use deal with Rio Tinto despite objections by rival claimants. On Wednesday, Rio Tinto and Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation (YAC) held a signing ceremony at Roebourne to celebrate the deal, covering 13,000 sq km of land between

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By Becky Bohrer Associated Press JUNEAU — A U.S. Senate committee on Tuesday advanced legislation that would provide $50 million to clean up abandoned federal wells on current or former National Petroleum Reserve lands.

Fijians are dying young from rheumatic heart diseases (RHD). This is the finding of Dr Charlie Corke of the Geelong Hospital in Australia. Dr Corke was part of the Operation Open Heart team that was in the country a month ago conducting open heart surgeries for patients.

Eleven government departments have agreed to work jointly with three Far North iwi so both parties decide how Crown money is spent in the region.

Timber markets challenge Latin American forest communities Source: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:11 AM Author: Barbara Fraser For indigenous communities and other forest dwellers in Latin America, reaping the benefits of timber depends not only on tenure rights, but also on how well they deal with markets, a

A Ngambri elder’s crusade to halt the development of a new northside suburb has again been denied by a Canberra court. Shane Mortimer had sought to appeal a decision that rejected his bid to block the Land Development Agency selling land in the greenfield suburb of Lawson in Belconnen.

Guatemala’s protected areas safeguard some of last remaining forests, but they are also threatening the livelihoods of the very people who have maintained these reservoirs of rich biological diversity for generations, a new study says.