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After more than 50 years, 250 Indigenous artefacts discovered in a private collection are now being returned home to the communities that created them - on the Tiwi Islands and beyond.
Tiwi elder Pirrawayingi, a member of the Tiwi Land Council for 27 years, believed the council's delegates were not being told the full story about its operations. "That makes it very, very ...
Private companies will be allowed to lease 10,040 hectares of Indigenous land on the Tiwi islands under an agreement signed by Northern Territory Chief Minister Adam Giles. The announcement came ...
Ecuador’s National System of Protected Areas now includes the 5,497-hectare (13,583-acre) ancestral Tiwi Nunka Forest, which the Shuar Indigenous community of El Kiim lives in and relies on […] ...
Tiwi Islands, The other 'Land of Smiles': A journey to Australia's forgotten islands By Daniel Scott Updated April 3, 2015 — 10.20pm first published at 12.15am ...
ON dry-season days, when the smoke haze clears above Darwin, the Tiwi Islands can just about be seen atop the horizon. In the wet, they are often marked by great storm clouds reaching high into ...
The Tiwi Islands, off Darwin, are in danger of becoming a wasteland because of excessive land clearing, the Australian Greens say. Greens senator Christine Milne told parliament the islands, an ...
We also wrote to the landlords, the Tiwi Land Council, on 30 September 2009 advising that we will not be accepting any liability for the lease costs from 30 September 2009.
Tiwi Land Ranger Willie Rioli worked with Mr Davies on the surveys which used a variety of trapping methods including camera traps. "The result showing less native animals isn't good, ...
According to Tiwi creation stories, in a time outside of time, their ancestors rose from darkness, roamed the land, and molded the earth. It was during this age—known as the Dreaming—that the ...
A series of delayed development projects promising income and jobs for Tiwi people has led to calls for the Tiwi Land Council (TLC) regional authority to be replaced. A $50 million port ...