Tucked away in the most northwestern part of Queensland, 79,000 hectares of land, gorges and sandstone ranges have been returned to the traditional owners.
The Boodjamulla National Park was handed back to the Waanyi people in a ceremony at Parliament House in Brisbane on June 23.
A prescribed body corporate of Waanyi representatives will lease the national park land to the state in a first of its kind.
It will become Queensland’s first Aboriginal land national park after the title deeds are handed over and following its rededication as Boodjamulla National Park.
Chairman of the Waanyi prescribed body corporate Alec Doomadgee said the area was integral to culture and country….