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Tara Cosoleto

Elders 'not consulted' on NT gas project

Dennis Tipakalippa (right) is fighting a regulator's decision to allow Santos to drill eight wells. (Aaron Bunch/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

The national gas regulator failed to recognise Tiwi Islander traditional owners as interested parties who needed to be consulted on a massive off-shore gas project, a barrister claims.

Tiwi Islander Dennis Tipakalippa from the Munupi clan is fighting the regulator's decision to allow Santos to drill eight wells in the Barossa gas field, 265 kilometres northwest of Darwin.

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