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Comment: The global land grab
The big four banks have defended their lending standards after a report linked them to companies accused of illegal land grabs in…
Source: BBC News
Australia's indigenous Barngarla people have won a campaign, lasting nearly 20 years, for the law to recognise their right to traditional lands.
The native title claim over a huge tract of land in South Australia has been mostly upheld by a federal court.
Native titles are pre-…
Deed of grant handed to the Yanyuwa people, covering four islands and Batten Point, at Jawuma near Borroloola, correcting omission in first land grant
After a near 40-year fight, the final 200 hectares of a contentious Aboriginal land claim has been handed back to traditional owners in…
Canberra, 26 ene (PL) Decenas de miembros de la comunidad aborigen australiana recordaron hoy el Día de la Invasión con una marcha a escala nacional en reclamo de sus derechos sobre la tierra. Los autóctonos realizaron la caminata en coincidencia con la celebración del día nacional, que conmemora…
By: Linda Rowley (property editor)
Date: February 10th 2016
Source: Beef Central
The scope for pastoral diversification in Western Australia’s Kimberley/Pilbara region has been limited by outdated land tenure laws that are now being overhauled by the WA state government. The new form of land tenure…
By: Staff Writer
Date: February 12th 2016
Source: Lawyer Herald
Australia has always hosted a significant Aboriginal population. To this effect, they enacted a policy called Closing the Gap, which seeks to lessen inequality between the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians by closing the gap…
Date: February 15th 2016
Australia's big four banks are failing to do enough to lift their game on unethical lending to companies involved in land grabs overseas.
That's the verdict of Oxfam Australia's latest report - "Still banking on land grabs".
"While National Australia Bank and Westpac…
By: Brad Thompson
Date: February 29th 2016
Source: The West Australian
Advertising guru Harold Mitchell has hailed changes to WA’s land use laws as a key to unlocking the value and productivity in pastoral leases covering 87 million hectares of the State.
Mr Mitchell, who owns three stations in…
By: Richard Hudson
Date: March 2nd 2016
Source: ABC Australia
Advertising mogul Harold Mitchell is fully supporting the Western Australian Government's introduction of multi-use leases for rangelands making up about 87 per cent of the state.
Mr Mitchell said the new legislation would allow him to…
Date: 11 mars 2016
Source: Trends Tendances
Par AFP
Lait, viande, et même noix de macadamia. Les Chinois ne se contentent plus d'acheter ces produits australiens dont ils raffolent : des investisseurs chinois acquièrent des fermes, dont les plus grandes et les plus anciennes de l'île…
Date: 20 mars 2016
Source: Le Soir
Les forêts de Tasmanie, classées au patrimoine mondial de l’humanité, ne seront pas exploitées, conformément aux recommandations d’un rapport transmis à l’Unesco, ont annoncé dimanche les autorités australiennes.
Les forêts de Tasmanie, une des dernières…
By: Jacinta Bolsenbroek
Date: March 24th 2016
Source: Farm Weekly
THE Pastoral Lands Board (PLB) issue has become a public brawl, according to the Pastoralists and Graziers Association (PGA) president Tony Seabrook.
He said after six months of trying to resolve the issue behind closed doors…