Township lease on the way for Gunbalanya

ANOTHER NT indigenous community is on its way to signing a 99-year township lease which the government says will open the doors for economic advancement.

THE township of Gunbalanya in West Arnhem Land will be the latest of a handful of indigenous communities in the Northern Territory to sign a 99-year township lease.

ON Monday the community's elders and traditional owners signed an in-principle agreement with federal Minister for Indigenous Affairs Nigel Scullion, indicating that after more than a dozen meetings in 10 months, the key terms of the proposed lease have been worked out.