Media Backgrounder: New port and industrial land on Ngarluma country at Anketell

The Western Australian State Government plans to develop a new port, strategic industrial areas and service corridor at Anketell on 4300ha of Ngarluma traditional land. Negotiations between the Ngarluma Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC and the State Government to agree an outcome for the Ngarluma people have been finalised and officially announced on 23 April 2014. 

The Ngarluma people 

The Ngarluma people are the original inhabitants of the coastal and hinterland areas around Roebourne (West Pilbara, Western Australia).

Archaeological surveys have revealed continuous occupation and ancestry stretching back more than 30,000 years giving the Ngarluma people a deep historical and spiritual connection to the land, waterways, rivers and the sea.

 

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