Australia hands land back to Aborigines

An Australian state is to return tens of thousands of acres of land to the original Aboriginal occupants, more than 30 years after it was turned into a national park, the state premier said today.

Australia hands land back to Aborigines

An Australian state is to return tens of thousands of acres of land to the original Aboriginal occupants, more than 30 years after it was turned into a national park, the state premier said today.

Queensland Premier Anna Bligh told the state parliament that more than 185,325 acres of land in far northeast Cape York Peninsula would be returned to the Wik Mungkan people.

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