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A proud Yolngu man from the Blue Mud Bay region, he is Chair of the Northern Land Council and recognized as 2023 Australian of the Year for the Northern Territory. His long NLC service includes multiple deputy chair terms, board roles, and advocacy for Aboriginal interests across policy, law, education, health, and business, including major reforms to land rights and innovations in economic development, biosecurity, and learning on Country.",{"@graph":69,"@context":123},[70,84,106],{"@type":71,"itemListElement":72},"BreadcrumbList",[73,77,79,82],{"item":74,"name":75,"@type":76,"position":8},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":78,"name":9,"@type":76,"position":14},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/",{"item":80,"name":35,"@type":76,"position":81},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/healthcare/",3,{"item":83,"name":65,"@type":76,"position":19},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/samuel-bush-blanasi-honorary-doctor-of-letters-2023-australian-of-the-year/270111/",{"url":83,"name":65,"@type":85,"image":86,"author":91,"headline":65,"publisher":94,"fileFormat":97,"inLanguage":63,"description":67,"dateModified":98,"datePublished":99,"encodingFormat":97,"isAccessibleForFree":100,"interactionStatistic":101},"DigitalDocument",{"url":87,"@type":88,"width":89,"height":90},"https://docshare.wps.com/thumbnails/samuel-bush-blanasi-honorary-doctor-of-letters-2023-australian-of-the-year/270111.png","ImageObject",300,407,{"name":92,"@type":93},"Liam","Person",{"url":74,"name":95,"@type":96},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-10-22","2026-09-15",true,{"@type":102,"interactionType":103,"userInteractionCount":105},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":104},"ViewAction",11,{"@type":107,"mainEntity":108},"FAQPage",[109,115,119],{"name":110,"@type":111,"acceptedAnswer":112},"Who is Samuel Bush-Blanasi and why is he being honored?","Question",{"text":113,"@type":114},"Samuel Bush-Blanasi is the Chair of the Northern Land Council and a Yolngu leader. 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He is the current Chair of the Northern Land Council (NLC) . Mr BushBlanasi is also 2023 Australian of the Year for the Northern Territory.  \nFor over three decades, Mr Bush-Blanasi has been an active member of the NLC, serving nine terms including three terms as Deputy Chair. He is currently serving his fourth consecutive term as NLC Chair of the 78 elected members comprising the Full Council. Mr Bush-Blanasi has extensive board and committee experience. In 2022 he was appointed co-Chair of the interim board to establish the Northern Territory Aboriginal Investment Corporation. He is a long-serving board member of the North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance, a member of the Aboriginal Housing Northern Territory  \nAboriginal Corporation and a member of the Governing Group of the Aboriginal Peak Organisations Northern Territory.  \nOver his career Mr Bush-Blanasi has represented and promoted the interests of more than 51,000 Aboriginal people  \nacross the Top End in areas such as public policy and law, education, health and business. He was the driving force of historic changes to the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act, passed by the Australian Parliament in December 2022, the most significant reform since the Act’s commencement in 1976.  \nFollowing the historic Blue Mud Bay High Court decision in 2008, Mr Bush-Blanasi secured the authority of Traditional Owners across the NLC region, the Tiwi Land Council and Anindilyakwa Land Council in March 2022 to establish the Aboriginal Sea Company, an innovation in Aboriginal economic development and self-determination.  \nDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, Mr Bush-Blanasi was responsible for pushing the NT and Commonwealth governments to introduce biosecurity zones across the Territory in early 2022, a successful initiative that saved lives, slowing the spread of the virus and giving more time for Aboriginal people in remote communities to get vaccinated.  \nMr Bush-Blanasi has always supported the primacy of the interests of Traditional Owners, traditional law and ceremony, caring for Country, and ‘two-way’ learning for young people. Mr Bush-Blanasi was instrumental in establishing the NLC’s‘Community Planning and Development’ program which supports self-determination for communities investing in their  \nown future, and in the NLC’s continued operation of the highly successful Learning on Country Program.  \nIn recognition of his outstanding contribution to advancing the interests and safeguarding the wellbeing of First Nations women, children, men and families across the Northern Territory, Charles Darwin University council awards Samuel Bush-Blanasi the title of Honorary Doctor of Letters.","cbCainVP2SX04Ljp","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCainVP2SX04Ljp","pdf",87745,"English","# Samuel Bush-Blanasi’s appointment and recognition\n## Leadership roles and NLC experience\n## Board work and community representation\n## Land rights reforms and sea company\n## COVID-19 biosecurity and community learning programs","[{\"question\":\"Who is Samuel Bush-Blanasi and why is he being honored?\",\"answer\":\"Samuel Bush-Blanasi is the Chair of the Northern Land Council and a Yolngu leader. 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