Your Land.
Your Say.

Since 1990 Cape York Land Council has successfully worked to support Cape York Traditional Owners to regain rights to land and sea, to preserve their culture, to create change and build vibrant, strong, independent communities for future generations.

Successful determinations

Returning the Ipima Ikaya people to their country

Ipima Ikaya

Determination Details

Native Title win for the Mokwiri People

mokwiri

Determination Details

Traditional Owners
Have driven the narrative.

After a lengthy period of consultation on country with Traditional Owners the Cape York Land Council have been given a very clear mandate on what success in this Native title space looks like:

Traditional Owners want the return of their land, not the politics
Traditional Owners must make their own decisions and speak for their country
Traditional Owners want certainty and not confusion
Traditional Owners don’t want this to take another quarter of a century. It’s time for the dispossession to end

Any process that causes disruption or lacks unity will almost certainly delay the opportunity for this justice significantly.

Capacity Building

Read about Land Rights

Our Strengths

Since 1990 Cape York Land Council has successfully worked to support Cape York Traditional Owners to regain rights to land and sea, to preserve their culture to create change and build vibrant, strong, independent communities for future generations.

Campfire Governance

We are governed by the will of Cape York. It is the voice of Traditional Owners that guides our direction.

Meeting Place

Cape York Land Council is a safe place where big ideas and powerful ambitions are driven by expertise and passion.

Human Tracks

We were there from the beginning and we forged the human path to native title determination. We know where we’re going because we know where we’ve been.