One quarter of Australian land mass locked up for Aboriginal ‘protected areas’

Far North Queensland is included in this official land grab where the Ewamian People have successfully secured Native Title over 7,163,000 acres of their traditional lands and have a base at Talaroo Station, situated between Mt Garnet and Mt Surprise ,which is recognised as an Indigenous Protected Area (IPA). 

Western Australia mining billionaire Twiggy Forrest is supporting the greatest land grab since settlement in 1788. Twiggy, it must be remembered is a devotee of the World Economic Forum where he spoke at the 2024 Davos gathering.

Land separation and division between black and white is one of the main planks of the Communist Manifesto strongly adhered to by the Australian Labor Party and enacted with help of the fraudulent HCA Mabo decision and enforced by UN treaties.

Does Twiggy know Trump and his band of musketeers are headed for Davos at the end of this week ostensibly to withdraw any support from the US and presumably to tear it apart?

Smart observers claim it won’t be long before Trump devotes much more attention to the Communist Labor Party and their intended hate speech and gun confiscation laws. The US administration started its Australian offensive today forcing Ambassador Kevin Rudd out of office one year before his tenancy was due to expire. Secretary of State Marco Rubio intimated he does not want to deal with a politically and economically unstable military ally such as Australia.

Our intelligence sources have said for some time the US has excluded the Australian Government from any sensitive military intelligence for some years.

The socialist federal Labor government in December locked up tens of millions of acres which are accessible only by Aborigines, it seems all with Twiggy’s blessing. Strangely there will be no mining rights traded as a condition of this massive land sterilisation.

No states or territories are exempt and once viable, open savannah grazing land has been removed from production and public access and now subject to exclusive Aboriginal land rights under a bogus conservation initiative.

No cattle will be running on these vast indigenous protected areas which will be a huge burden on the public purse just to keep a handful of mainly white Aborigines in booze and tucker.

What an ideal opportunity for Chinese interests to move in by offering unassuming blackfellas trinkets and cash to help bankroll their conservation effort.

Chinese businessmen remain in the Torres Strait trying to bribe their way into land deals and ownership with local councils and Islander corporations but were thwarted when Cairns News exposed their activities and the Elder of the Australian Parliament Bob Katter upended their covert operations in the House.

At least eight new massive Indigenous regions will be given official protection after the federal government announced a $13 million funding boost to expand First Nations-led conservation.

Indigenous Protected Areas (IPAs) are created through voluntary agreements between First Nations peoples and the Australian Government to manage and protect land and sea for biodiversity conservation. As of December, just under a quarter of Australia’s land mass was formally protected.

The new funding was announced on Monday as part of the government’s commitment to protect 30 per cent of Australia’s land by 2030.

“This funding will allow Indigenous communities to continue their leadership in land management and conservation, which is essential as we work towards protecting 30 per cent of land by 2030,” Environment Minister Murray Watt said.

Since the program began in 1997, 95 IPAs have been established nationwide, covering 108.4 million hectares of land.

“We want to empower more Traditional Owners to care for Country and safeguard their cultural heritage,” Senator Watt said. “That’s why we’re supporting the establishment of new Indigenous Protected Areas through the $250 million Australian Bushland Program.”

The Bushland Program supports the IPA scheme as well as other First Nations-led conservation initiatives, including Nature Repair Market projects developed in partnership with state and territory governments.

Last year, six new IPAs were declared and two were expanded. These included 718,463 hectares across the Tiwi Islands, 31,941 hectares on Ewamian Country in the Gulf Savannah region, 144,493 hectares on Nyul Nyul Country in the Kimberley, and nearly four million hectares in the Central Western Desert.

Following five years of consultation between Traditional Owners and the Tiwi Land Council, the Tiwi Islands — home to about 2,300 people — were formally designated as an IPA at a ceremony in December.

Former Tiwi Land Council chair Gibson Farmer Illortaminni said the designation would help communities “continue to look after our country and our culture for all the generations to come”.

“To keep our country healthy, our people healthy and our culture strong, we need to bring together our knowledge of the past with new ways of doing things today,” he said at the time.

In March, the Central Desert IPA was announced, covering the Haasts Bluff Aboriginal Land Trust — almost 40,000 square kilometres — and forming part of a 435,000 square kilometre cross-border protected desert region alongside Uluru-Kata Tjuta and Watarrka national parks.

Central Land Council CEO Les Turner said the IPA was “not just about conservation,” but about empowering Traditional Owners to lead development on their land by “creating good jobs on Country”.

Fortunately nearly all regional Australians have experienced the myth of ‘jobs on country’ for years. They are a figment of Labor and Liberal imagination and no Aborigines other than a handful of pampered land rangers actually work or even live on country.

Unfortunately there are very few Aboriginal stockmen left in Australia after disappearing en masse from cattle stations 20 or more years ago.

Sit down money and mining royalties are much more easy and lucrative than $300 a day mustering cattle.

Rangers do drive around in their brand new government-purchased, air-conditioned Landcruisers and Hiluxes with tools and chain saws in the back for appearance sake but seldom do anymore than cut up some firewood or drag a tourist’s vehicle out of a dry bog.

Jobs on country is a scam of the greatest proportion and city dwellers think it marvellous that indigenous people could be working on the tens of millions of acres of viable cattle country handed to them by a Communist government and funded by their taxes.

This image is often shattered when city holiday makers take a trip into the wild unknown in their new 4wd’s and camper vans actually visiting one or another of the few accessible reserves under joint Aboriginal and national park management.

Watch the Facebook comments even before they return home.

Further funding announcements under the Australian Bushland Program will be made throughout 2026.

For more information, including eligibility and how to apply, visit GrantConnect.

Applications will open on Tuesday 13 January 2026 and close on Wednesday 11 March 2026 at 9:00pm AEDT.

Sources: National Indigenous Times; Cairns News

Contributed by our NT correspondent