Forty-year lease signed on Groote Eylandt
20/5/08
The first agreement for 40-year leases over Aboriginal townships has been signed in the Northern Territory. Three remote communities on Groote Eylandt in the Gulf of Carpentaria will hand over their land in exchange for more than $25 million in health, housing and education initiatives. It is a watered down version of the Howard government’s controversial 99-year lease proposal to stimulate economic development in indigenous communities. Nguiu, in the Tiwi Islands, is the only community to sign up to the scheme.
See: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23730320-2702,00.html
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