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Red Chief Local Aboriginal Land Council

local Aboriginal Land Council in New South Wales, Australia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ138788481 ↗
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The Red Chief Local Aboriginal Land Council (Red Chief LALC) is a body corporate constituted under the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 (NSW), based in Gunnedah, New South Wales, Australia. It is one of 121 Local Aboriginal Land Councils that form the network coordinated by the NSW Aboriginal Land Council (NSWALC), and operates within the Northern region of that network.

The council serves the Aboriginal community in the Gunnedah area, which lies on the traditional country of the Gamilaraay (Kamilaroi) people.

History

Red Chief LALC was constituted under the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 (NSW), which received royal assent on 4 May 1983 and created the legislative framework for Local Aboriginal Land Councils across New South Wales. The Act established the NSW Aboriginal Land Council as the peak body and provided for a network of local land councils with functions in land acquisition, cultural heritage protection, and community development.

In July 2013, Red Chief LALC was involved in a dispute with Whitehaven Coal over the treatment of Aboriginal artefacts at the Maules Creek coal mine in the Gunnedah Basin. Approximately 60 Gomeroi traditional owners gathered outside Whitehaven Coal's Boggabri office, and the council called for a halt to all cultural heritage salvage work, alleging breaches of the Cultural Heritage Management Plan. The NSW Department of Planning said it would fully investigate the alleged breaches.

Activities

According to its filings with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC), Red Chief LALC operates programs in activities, support, and information for Aboriginal people in cultural connection, land and heritage site protection, and social housing. The council maintains an artefact gallery and conducts activities on country.

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This entry incorporates text from “Red Chief Local Aboriginal Land Council” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.