Senate inquiry hears of upset over $21m in grants being given to companies while Indigenous community lacks even basic infrastructure.

Aboriginal traditional owners fear their sacred sites and waterways are under threat from gas fracking which is restarting and ramping up in the Northern Territory's Beetaloo Basin this Dry Season, after a halt during the pandemic lockdowns and Wet Season.

In the middle of the Federal Government's planned "gas-led recovery", the future of the Beetaloo Basin is in doubt because traditional owners have decided they want to take over the power to negotiate with gas companies.