Hi all,
I have just had a request from the Central Land Council to inform birders that the locations in which the Princess Parrots have been sighted is primarily on Aboriginal freehold land. To visit such areas without a special purpose permit is illegal under the Land Rights Act and incurs a hefty fine. The Central Land Council notes that at least 8 separate birding parties are currently heading to the Mt Winter area in the Haasts Bluff Aboriginal Land Trust and none have applied for a permit to do so.
It should be noted that Aboriginal land is privately owned. Like other landowners in Australia , Aboriginal people have the legal right to grant or refuse permission to people wishing to enter or travel through their land. There are also areas that contains numerous sacred sites, including places that have gender-specific access restrictions.
To apply for permits you should visit http://www.clc.org.au/Permits/permits.html Applications for a special purpose permit usually take several weeks or more to process and are not automatically granted. This is because the traditional owners for particular sites need to be identified and contacted as to their wishes. They may reside across a number of geographically distant communities.
Cheers,
Tim Dolby
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2 responses to “Princess Parrot – Permit Required”
Some of you don’t seem to be reading the regulations correctly. There are three types of permits each with increasing difficulty to get. The first is a simple Transit Permit which allows you access to various through roads in the area. The next is an Entry Permit which allows access to some areas as shown on the CLC’s website map. However , most of the areas where PPs have been reported require a Special Purpose Permit which is much harder to get approval for and can take weeks to be granted (or refused). These are normally only granted to Government Departments doing developmental work or research and to universities for anthropological, geological or environmental research. Some of these can take months to obtain. All this info is available on the CLC website so I can only advise you to read it carefully. I have been in phone contact with the CLC official responsible for assessing applications and either granting or refusing them after extensive consultation with traditional owners of the land. He has warned that people caught without the proper permit in Special Purpose areas will be severely fined to a maximum of $1000.
Read the note from Tim Dolby more carefully.
I am not sure to what extent the above applies to the Santos Mereenie Oilfield area which some people are targeting.
Tony
Thanks Tim for passing this on. I think you will find most of the groups going out have been advised that we just need to get permits once we are out there which is why no- one has applied yet. I have just tried to do the right thing, now that i know, and have applied online for an entry permit. We’ll just have to hope that the process doesn’t take too long! I will follow up with a phone call tomorrow. Cheers Dave
Hi all,
I have just had a request from the Central Land Council to inform birders that the locations in which the Princess Parrots have been sighted is primarily on Aboriginal freehold land. To visit such areas without a special purpose permit is illegal under the Land Rights Act and incurs a hefty fine. The Central Land Council notes that at least 8 separate birding parties are currently heading to the Mt Winter area in the Haasts Bluff Aboriginal Land Trust and none have applied for a permit to do so.
It should be noted that Aboriginal land is privately owned. Like other landowners in Australia , Aboriginal people have the legal right to grant or refuse permission to people wishing to enter or travel through their land. There are also areas that contains numerous sacred sites, including places that have gender-specific access restrictions.
To apply for permits you should visit http://www.clc.org.au/Permits/permits.html Applications for a special purpose permit usually take several weeks or more to process and are not automatically granted. This is because the traditional owners for particular sites need to be identified and contacted as to their wishes. They may reside across a number of geographically distant communities.
Cheers,
Tim Dolby
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