Across Australia, the government has established 12 new Indigenous Protected Areas to be managed by First Nations groups.
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00:00This is an amazing thing for my past generations, for my ancestors.
00:06The Australian Government has announced 12 new Indigenous Protected Areas
00:12that will be managed by First Nations groups.
00:15The total area is 7.5 million hectares of land and 450,000 hectares of sea.
00:24That's an area the size of Tasmania.
00:27We're here at the beautiful Bellinger River today and this is one Indigenous Protected Area.
00:33We're talking about the Pilbara, Coorbapiti, Cape York, East Arnhem Land, right across this country.
00:40To be able to stand up and be given the right to look after our lands
00:45and turn them tables back to where the traditional custodians' practices are the keys to the future.
00:51There isn't words in the language that I know to really express how important that is to us as people.