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PUBLISHED ON: 23.11.2016

Country Needs People - Supporter Voices

• Need for penalties for tourists who cause destruction of land or significant cultural areas. • Need for government to recognise biodiversity and other environmental values of Indigenous managed land. • Need for political (policy) and financial support for conservation. • Indigenous participation on a wider scale and inclusion of TEK. • Broader education (campaigns) for tourists to respect land rights and no go zones. • More Indigenous land and sea management agencies and ranger groups to enable greater access to country, maintenance of cultural responsibilities (e.g. policing the taking of local species of fauna or objects as souvenirs), feeling of being and belonging, and employment. • Protection and arrangements required in land use planning and development application processes to protect culture. For example: protection of family campsites, birthing sites, grave sites, plants, bores, wells, hunting and gathering grounds.

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Country Needs People is a national not-for-profit organisation born from the support of hundreds of Traditional Owners around the country.

We pay our respects to all the First Nations people around Australia and their unbroken commitment to keep Country strong on land and sea. We acknowledge Indigenous partners, Traditional Owners, Elders past, present and emerging and extend our appreciation of their support and guidance of our daily work.

ALWAYS WAS, ALWAYS WILL BE, ABORIGINAL LAND.