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17 November 2021
Bring on big school! Cooroy Kindergarten’s Koala group is starting to get excited about going to primary school next year.
In the meantime, they were all smiles for our photographer's visit to the kindy last week.
Talks on Mount Cooroora BY ALEX PURCELL DISCUSSIONS are occurring about the management of Mount Cooroora, following a Native Title Claim on the area. The claim, lodged on 11 December 2018, by the Kabi Kabi First National Owners Native Title Claim Group,
covers eight local government areas from Redcliffe to Bundaberg including the Noosa Shire Council. While the claim is yet to be determined by the courts, the Department of Environment and Science (DES), which currently manages Tuchekoi National Park and therefore Mount Cooroora
under the Nature Conservation Act 1992, is working with the Kabi Kabi people to develop a co-stewardship arrangement “to work in genuine partnership in caring for Kabi Kabi Country”. “This includes working in partnership to manage high visitor numbers and their potential impact on country,
culture and heritage. “First Nations peoples’ cultural rights are not limited to those afforded by Native Title. “DES is supporting the Path to Treaty and Reconciliation by empowering First Nations’ rights in caring for Country.” Entered in the claim’s reg-
istered native title rights and interests is that the group is seeking non-exclusive rights to “maintain places of importance and areas of significance to the native title holders under their traditional laws and customs and to protect those places and areas from physical harm”. To what extent this will
have an impact on future recreational use of Mount Cooroora is unknown. A major claimant from the Kabi Kabi First National Owners' Native Title Claim Group was contacted by the Cooroy Rag for comment on behalf of the group but no response was received.
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