A gathering of more than 300 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders has expressed in-principle support for the creation of a new national representative body led by Traditional Owners, following the failure of the 2023 Voice to Parliament referendum.

But there are tensions over who was invited to the Port Douglas conference and whether the workshop favoured Indigenous corporations legislated to facilitate native-title matters.

Cape York Land Council acting CEO, Richie Ah Mat, who was at the three-day event, said it was mostly government-recognised native title representative bodies and Aboriginal Land Councils in attendance.

"I don't support the new entity at the present moment because there's got to be more detail," the Yupungathi Wuthathi man told the ABC's Indigenous Affairs T

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