ACT government apologises to Canberra's Ngambri people for failing to recognise them as traditional custodians

Ngambri community member Paul Girrawah House (left, pictured with Dr Matilda House) took the ACT government to court last year. (Supplied: Dr Matilda House and Paul Girrawah House)

The ACT government has apologised to the Ngambri people over its failure to recognise them as traditional owners of the Canberra area.

Members of the Ngambri — or Kamberri — people took the government to court over its Indigenous protocol, which listed only the Ngunnawal people as traditional custodians of the land.