Cover Story: The Roebuck Plains land scandal*

When the incoming Aboriginal chairman of the Indigenous Land Corporation queried the high price paid for a Kimberley cattle station, all hell broke loose. Darwin-based journalist Dennis Schulz explains what is going on.When Mary Manolis heard that the Indigenous Land Corporation (ILC) bought Roebuck Plains station, she thought her life-long dream had been fulfilled. The ILC was created to purchase land for dispossessed Aborigines, so the acquisition of the property meant that the sprawling Kimbe…

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