NSW Local Aboriginal Land Council Administrative Boundaries in GDA2020

NSW Local Aboriginal Land Council is a geospatial dataset depicting gazetted areas for Local Aboriginal Land Councils in New South Wales, Australia. The dataset contains council names and regional council names, is maintained by Spatial Services for the Office of Aboriginal Affairs, and was initially published on 05/02/2020. It is part of the Foundational Spatial Data Framework and uses the GDA2020 coordinate system.

Use Cases

• Mapping the jurisdictional boundaries of Local Aboriginal Land Councils based on the gazetted areas described.
• Analyzing spatial relationships between land councils and property parcels based on the described alignment with Land Parcel and Property datasets.
• Supporting administrative planning and service delivery by using the included local and regional council names.

Strengths

• Dataset is aligned with the national GDA2020 standard, improving accuracy and compatibility.
• Maintains a positional relationship to the authoritative Lot and Property digital datasets.
• Officially maintained by Spatial Services on behalf of the Office of Aboriginal Affairs and NSW Local Aboriginal Land Council.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data currency date is listed as 01/01/3000, which is likely a placeholder and requires verification.
• Row count and specific accuracy metrics are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Spatial Services (a business unit of the Department of Customer Service NSW), sourced from Aboriginal Affairs.

Collection Method

Digitised from the best available cadastral mapping at scales ranging from 1:500 to 1:250,000.

Time Range

Initial publication date is 05/02/2020.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-27 13:33:42.683605; update frequency is listed as 'Other'.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia.