To the Speaker and the Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory

WE THE UNDERSIGNED RESPECTFULLY SHOWETH

We the undersigned support the Return of Lee Point and Casuarina Coastal Reserve to the care, ownership and protection of Larrakia people. Lee Point and Casuarina Coastal Reserve are sacred to Larrakia people. Lee Point, in particular, is a place of ceremony, creation stories and history that holds Larrakia medicine, sacred sites and native foods. Currently Lee Point is under threat of being destroyed by Defence Housing Australia to build houses for the military and private profit. If this goes ahead, it will cause irreversible damage to Larrakia Country and culture as well as the wellbeing of Larrakia people. For Larrakia people to look after Lee Point and Casuarina Coastal Reserve based on thousands of years of knowledge, they need their Country returned to their ownership, protection and care. When this happens, Larrakia people can again fully enact their responsibility and guardianship of Larrakia land and futures.

YOUR PETITIONERS THEREFORE HUMBLY PRAY THAT 

The Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory recommends the Return of Lee Point and Casuarina Coastal Reserve to the care, ownership and protection of Larrakia people enacted across three phases: (1) An immediate moratorium on all land clearing at Lee Point (2) A commitment to working with, and resourcing, all eight Larrakia family groups to work together to establish and manage a new Larrakia-owned entity which will co-manage Casuarina Coastal Reserve and Lee Point with Parks & Wildlife NT and (3) The transferral of ownership of Casuarina Coastal Reserve and Lee Point to this Larrakia-owned entity along with the resources needed to care for and manage Country in a fully self-determined way by 2030.  

AND YOUR PETITIONERS AS IN DUTY BOUND, WILL EVER PRAY

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This petition is for people living in the Northern Territory or Aboriginal people who are from the NT and living away from home. The petition will be tabled by Independent MLA Justine Davis on November 28 2024. If you would prefer to sign the petition by hand or you're willing to gift some time towards collecting signatures from Elders, friends and family members who don't have easy access to sign our online petition then you can also download and print a PDF copy of the petition here. Justine Davis has offered for any hand-signed petition sheets to be dropped at her office any time on - or before - November 28. Her office is located at the Millner Village Plaza on the corner of Fitzgerald St and Bagot Road.