{"id":314271,"date":"2025-11-10T17:55:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T07:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=314271"},"modified":"2025-11-10T14:02:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T04:02:23","slug":"wurundjeri-traditional-owners-lodge-native-title-claim-over-greater-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=314271","title":{"rendered":"Wurundjeri Traditional Owners Lodge Native Title Claim Over Greater Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation filed a native title claim in Australia&#8217;s Federal Court on November 9, 2025, encompassing 7,800 square kilometers of Greater <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=melbourne\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Melbourne\">Melbourne<\/a> and surrounding regions, including Naarm and areas up to the Yarra Valley. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This claim follows Victoria&#8217;s passage of the Advancing the Treaty Process with Aboriginal Victorians Act 2025 on October 30, establishing a statewide treaty framework to address historical injustices through negotiations on health, education, and land management. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If recognised under the Native Title Act 1993, it would affirm Wurundjeri rights to Crown lands for cultural access and environmental protection, without impacting private property or infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If recognised under the Native Title Act 1993, it would affirm Wurundjeri rights to Crown lands for cultural access and environmental protection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":266732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,35],"tags":[993,17272,8,18720],"class_list":["post-314271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-breaking-news","tag-melbourne","tag-treaty-in-victoria","tag-victoria","tag-wurundjeri"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=314271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314272,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314271\/revisions\/314272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/266732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=314271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=314271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=314271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}