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"More than 362,000 hectares of Cape York has been officially returned to its
traditional owners in a move that Indigenous leaders are hailing as the
beginning of a “new era” for the peninsula.
The Gudang Yadhaykenu, Atambaya and Angkamuthi (Seven Rivers) peoples were
handed back land – which includes the Jardine River national park – at a
ceremony at Injinoo on Wednesday.
It means all national parks in Cape York are now in the hands of traditional
owners, as part of a 27-year-long Queensland government program that has now
delivered them more than 4.3m hectares – an area the size of Switzerland.
The Balkanu Cape York Development Corporation’s executive director, Gerhardt
Pearson, said Jardine River was named after an infamous family of Scottish
Australians whose “reign of terror” and “wholesale killing” in the pioneering
and governing of the Top End was “deeply embedded in the minds and
storytelling” of traditional owners to this day.
The national park will be renamed Apudthama, which means “together”.
Pearson said the handover “capped off Cape York” as an Aboriginal estate and
“exorcised a ghost” that had haunted the far north for 157 years."
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Future Crunch Sep 12, 2022:
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