Copyright and disclaimer

The National Indigenous Australians Agency (NIAA) manages this website on behalf of the Australian Government.  This page explains who has rights to the material on this site and how we manage it. 

Copyright

This work is copyright. You may download, display, print and reproduce this material in unaltered form only (retaining this notice) for your personal, non-commercial use or use in your organisation. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, all other rights are reserved.

Material on this site is provided by Commonwealth agencies. Requests and inquiries concerning reproduction and rights should be addressed to the agency identified as the contributor for any material.

Linking to this site

Information from this site is not to be passed off as your own (including copying or re-using parts of the site). We encourage you to link to our site and ask you to adopt the following guidelines:

• When linking to the website, link to main collection level pages wherever possible, for example: http://www.indigenous.gov.au/news-and-media
• Deep linking is permitted, however this can create maintenance overheads as the page to which you link to may move or become unavailable.
• Where appropriate to the context of the link, it is good practice to indicate the website to which the user will link.

Attribution

Material on this website from a Commonwealth agency is to be attributed as:
© Commonwealth of Australia 2024

Third-party material

The permission to reproduce copyright protected material does not extend to any material on this site that is identified as being the copyright of a third party. You must ask their permission to reproduce their material and you should contact them directly. When using third party content on our website, we've made all reasonable efforts to:

• obtain the third party's consent when using their material
• clearly indicate when copyright is owned by a third party.

Disclaimer

This website is presented by the Commonwealth for the purpose of disseminating information free of charge for the benefit of the public. We publish content sourced from other Commonwealth agencies or third parties.

We monitor the quality of the information available on this website and update the information regularly. However, we do not guarantee that it is complete, reliable, current or accurate and we do not accept legal liability for that.

We recommend that you exercise your own skill and care when you use this website. You should carefully evaluate the accuracy, currency, completeness and relevance of the material on the website for your purposes.

This website is not a substitute for independent professional advice. You should seek professional advice relevant for your particular circumstances.

The material on this website may include the views or recommendations of third parties, which do not necessarily reflect the views of the Commonwealth, or indicate its commitment to a particular course of action.

Links to external websites

This website may contain links to other websites that are external to the site. This site takes reasonable care in linking to websites but has no direct control over the content of the linked sites, or the changes that may occur to the content on those sites. It is your responsibility to make your own decisions about the accuracy, currency, reliability and correctness of information contained in linked external websites.

Links to external websites are not an endorsement or a recommendation of any material on those sites or of any third-party products or services offered by, from or through those sites. Users of links provided by this website are responsible for being aware of which organisation is hosting the website they visit.

Security of the site

This site applies security controls to protect its website from unauthorised access. However, be aware that the World Wide Web is an insecure public network that gives rise to a potential risk that transactions are being viewed, intercepted or modified by third parties or that downloaded files may contain computer viruses, disabling codes, worms or other devices or defects.

We accept no liability for any interference with or damage to your computer system, software or data occurring in connection with or relating to this website or its use. You are encouraged to take appropriate and adequate precautions to ensure that whatever is selected from this site is free of viruses or other contamination that may interfere with or damage a computer system, software or data.