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Queensland’s popular Fraser Island has been returned to its Indigenous people, with the Federal Court today granting native title rights. The Butchulla People have called Fraser Island home for at least 5,000 years, known to the local Indigenous people as K’Gari, which means paradise.

The world’s largest sand island had not always been an idyllic home, with its people fighting off forced removal, sand mining and environmental damage, to maintain their connection to the island. (X)

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