1/23/2015
SYDNEY – A judge in Australia ruled on Thursday in favor of much of a lawsuit filed by an Aboriginal group in 1996 to claim rights over 109,962 acres of land in the south of the country, local press reported.
The area in dispute was a triangular area which covers one third of the Eyre Peninsula between the cities of Port Augusta and Port Lincoln, in southern Australia.
Aboriginal residents of Barngarla village also claimed adjoining areas on land and sea including fishing, farming and mining zones among others, according to the local news channel ABC.
Federal judge John Mansfield excluded in his ruling the rights of the Aboriginals over the city of Port Augusta, the maritime area of Port Lincoln and the upper part of the Spencer Gulf islands.
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SYDNEY – A judge in Australia ruled on Thursday in favor of much of a lawsuit filed by an Aboriginal group in 1996 to claim rights over 109,962 acres of land in the south of the country, local press reported.The area in dispute was a triangular area which covers one third of the Eyre Peninsula between the cities of Port Augusta and Port Lincoln, in southern Australia.
Aboriginal residents of Barngarla village also claimed adjoining areas on land and sea including fishing, farming and mining zones among others, according to the local news channel ABC.
Federal judge John Mansfield excluded in his ruling the rights of the Aboriginals over the city of Port Augusta, the maritime area of Port Lincoln and the upper part of the Spencer Gulf islands.
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