This document is an Aboriginal Ownership and Leaseback Agreement executed between the Mutawintji Local Aboriginal Land Council and the NSW Minister for the Environment. The Land Council holds title to the lands comprising the Mootwingee Historic Site, Mootwingee National Park and Coturaundee Nature Reserve on behalf of the Aboriginal Owners and leases the lands back to the Government for use as a National Park. This was the first such agreement entered into by the Office of Environment and Heritage under Part 4A of the *National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974* (NSW).

Office of Environment and Heritage, Mutawintji Local Aboriginal Land Council Lease to the Minister for the Environment (Agreement, 1 September 1998).

From 1879, laws set aside areas of land as National Parks. They did not include provisions for the involvement of Aboriginal people in their management.  In recent decades, laws and policies have introduced mechanisms that facilitate Aboriginal people’s ownership and co-management of some National Parks.