Shellharbour council set to join historic South Coast native title claim

Kate McIlwain
Updated August 13 2018 - 4:03pm, first published 4:00pm
Historic claim: The claim extends from the Royal National Park, pictured, through Wollongong and Shellharbour and along the entire South Coast, to south of Eden.
Historic claim: The claim extends from the Royal National Park, pictured, through Wollongong and Shellharbour and along the entire South Coast, to south of Eden.

Shellharbour is set to become the latest council to join legal proceedings on the massive South Coast native title claim, which would give indigenous people along the coast traditional fishing rights in the area.

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Kate McIlwain

Kate McIlwain

Journalist

For more than a decade, I've helped the Illawarra Mercury set the news agenda across the region. Currently I'm the paper's health reporter - covering the stories of Illawarra workers and residents in the wake of a global pandemic and at a time where our health systems are stretched to the limit.

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