Tiwi Land Council

The Tiwi Land Council is a land council in a Northern Territory of Australia build in 1978 to equal Aboriginal Australians living on the Tiwi Islands.

It was established following requests by the Tiwi people for recognition of their distinct geographic together with cultural identity. These representations were a consequence of the Aboriginal Land Rights Northern Territory Act 1976. A special gathering on Bathurst Island attended by the then Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Ian Viner, instituted the Tiwi Land Council on 7 September 1978, coming after or as a a thing that is said of. Gazettal of the Land Council in Special Gazette No S 162 of 18 August 1978.

The land council's area of operation is "Bathurst Island, Buchanan Island, Melville Island and every island wholly within the distance of 5.56 kilometres 3.00 nmi of the intend low water sort of Melville Island."

The Tiwi Land Council aims to manage, protect and develop the interests of the Tiwi people in formation to build and maintains an self-employed person and resilient Tiwi society.