Interview:
Doug Williams, Senior Custodian, Githabul people -
3rd January 2007
(Credit: 2SM - Super
Network)
Story
1:
After
12 years of negotiations ... the NSW government has
signed off on the biggest native title claim on Australia's
east coast.
The
deal hands the GITHABUL people ownership of over 6-thousand
square kilometres of land along the New South Wales
and Queensland border.
Senior
Custodian of the GITHABUL Tribal Nation DOUG WILLIAMS
says it's been a long battle...
[Cart
No: <GroupCarts>nsw
Time: 13s
Out-cue: ]
GRAB
"After all the hard work and I guess we all feel
the same thing... it's very ecstatic for us and in
the same sense very humbling.. and we can now remember
our people."
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Story 2:
The
BEATTIE government's refusing to come to the table
over a native title claim for Mount LINDESAY on the
NSW ... Queensland border.
In
the biggest native land settlement on the east coast...
the NSW government yesterday granted the GITHABUL
people over 6-thousand square kilometres of land along
the New South Wales Queensland border.
The
land includes the base of Mount LINDESAY... but not
the peak... which is considered Queensland property.
Senior
Custodian of the GITHABUL Tribal Nation DOUG WILLIAMS
says it's ridiculous...
[Cart No: <GroupCarts>Githa
Time: 19s
Title: Githa
Out-cue: ]
GRAB...
"It's
a very significant sight to the GITHABUL people..
to think that the bottom side of Mount LINDESAY is
in NSW and the crest the top of it is QLD and we've
already come to a consent determination on the bottom
half and now the QLD government is not consenting
to the top ...I find it extraordinary"
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