Author: Michael Murphy

17 May Explain native title, Rann urged (The Australian)

Posted at 19:53h in News, Posts

Determined to forge a new legal-historical narrative in South Australia, native title groups are asking Premier Mike Rann to begin negotiations on "unfinished business" arising from the state's 1836 Letters Patent. A meeting of the 27 native title groups at Clare over the weekend unanimously...

16 May Old treaties face new laws: Supreme Court decision to help streamline mine permits (The Province)

Posted at 19:57h in News, Posts

Canada's Supreme Court -- in a ruling that could help clarify the complex process needed to gain a mining permit -- said on Friday a proposed vanadium mine on land owned by an aboriginal group must have a full environmental assessment before development proceeds. The...

14 May First Nations talk blockades in bid to win HST exemption (Times Colonist)

Posted at 19:59h in News, Posts

First Nations in Ontario vowed Friday to continue to fight the provincial and federal governments for a complete exemption from paying the new harmonized sales tax, calling it a blatant violation of historic aboriginal treaties. Two reserves in northern Ontario are planning a railway blockade...