The Darkinjung Local Aboriginal Land Council is an incorporated body constituted under the NSW Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983. Its objectives are to improve, protect and foster the best interests of all Aboriginal people within the land council’s area and other people who are members of the land council.
The Darkinjung Local Aboriginal Land Council covers parts of the Central Coast, with boundaries stretching from Catherine Hill Bay in the north, Hawkesbury River in the south, the Pacific Ocean in the east and Watagan mountains in the west.
Aboriginal Land Rights Act
The Darkinjung Local Aboriginal Land Council land was granted under the provisions made in the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 to compensate Aboriginal people for the historic dispossession of land, and in recognition of their ongoing disadvantage.
Land councils are charitable statutory bodies corporate, whereby the financial proceeds of a land council’s operations must be reinvested into improving, protecting and fostering the best interests of all Aboriginal people within the land council’s area.
