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The ILSC assists Indigenous people with the acquisition and management of land, salt water and fresh water so they can achieve economic, environmental, social and cultural benefits.

How a lucky sighting of a newspaper ad helped a family win back its ancestral lands. When Kevin Torrens’ ageing father-in-law Ernie Hickling asked him to get back the lands of his ancestors, it seemed like an impossible mission. [Story courtesy ABC Online]
The ILC’s land acquisition and management program, Our Land Our Future (OLOF), is open for business. The program supports a wide range of agribusiness, urban investments, niche Indigenous products, tourism and renewables.
The ILC Chairperson, Eddie Fry, has welcomed last week’s tabling of proposed legislation to set up an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land and Sea Future Fund and to extend the ILC’s sphere of operations to water, both inland and out to sea.