‘On our own terms’: Anaiwan people look to buy 240 hectares of bushland to reclaim country

Larissa Ahoy, Dave Widders, Steve Widders and Callum Clayton-Dixon of Newara Aboriginal Corporation, which has crowdfunded to buy back land in the New England high country of NSW. Photograph: Tom Plevey/The Guardian

The Anaiwan people of the New England high country in New South Wales have taken matters into their own hands in the fight to reclaim Indigenous land, running a successful crowdfunding campaign to buy a privately owned bush block.

After raising more than $330,000, the Nēwara Aboriginal Corporation have made an offer to buy a 240-hectare block 30 minutes north-west of Armidale in the Boorolong region.