Claim renews sovereignty campaign - SBS Podcast

The Murrawarri say they never ceded their sovereignty or ultimate title over their ancient homeland and never gave permission for the colonisers to enter their land.

It's an area known as the Culgoa River region, which includes towns like Bourke and Brewarrina in northwest New South Wales and Cunnamulla in southeast Queensland.

Fred Hooper is from the Murrawarri Peoples Council of the Murrawarri Republic.

"We firmly believe that our ultimate title has not been taken away by the King of England when Captain Cook first placed the flag on Possession Island. We believe that at that time the Murrawarri nation was an independent Murrawarri nation with boundaries and with the boundary that we've re-drawn up which had laws and customs that governed our people and governed our country and governed our land."