Sacred Sights & Land Rights: What's Happened Since Mabo?

It's been nearly 30 years since the High Court of Australia finally recognised that Australia was never 'Terra nullius', or 'land belonging to no-one', so why do we continue to see irreplaceable sacred sites being destroyed by corporate interests?

And when it comes to land rights, how much of Australia is really now back in the hands of our First Nations people, and where? 

The Quicky speaks to three Indigenous and land rights experts to find out why the people who have lived on this earth for tens of thousands of years are still struggling to be heard, and to regain control of their ancestral homeland.

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CREDITS 

Host/Producer: Claire Murphy

Executive Producer: Siobhán Moran-McFarlane

Audio Producer: Madeline Joannou

Guests:

Denis Rose - A proud Gunditjmara man, Land Manager at Gunditj Mirring Traditional Owners Corp, and Project Manager for the Budj Bim Sustainable Development Partnership, which aims to establish a World Heritage nomination for the Budj Bim lava flow

Dr Janine Mohamed - A proud Narrunga Kaurna woman from South Australia and CEO of the Lowitja Institute

Professor Sue Jackson - Cultural Geographer based at Griffith University, with over twenty-five years’ experience researching the social dimensions of natural resource management

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