Warumungu Land Claim
Author: Australia. Office of the Aboriginal Land Commissioner
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780644137379
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Aboriginal Title
Author: P. G. McHugh
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2011-08-18
Total Pages: 1529
ISBN-13: 0191018546
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAboriginal title represents one of the most remarkable and controversial legal developments in the common law world of the late-twentieth century. Overnight it changed the legal position of indigenous peoples. The common law doctrine gave sudden substance to the tribes' claims to justiciable property rights over their traditional lands, catapulting these up the national agenda and jolting them out of a previous culture of governmental inattention. In a series of breakthrough cases national courts adopted the argument developed first in western Canada, and then New Zealand and Australia by a handful of influential scholars. By the beginning of the millennium the doctrine had spread to Malaysia, Belize, southern Africa and had a profound impact upon the rapid development of international law of indigenous peoples' rights. This book is a history of this doctrine and the explosion of intellectual activity arising from this inrush of legalism into the tribes' relations with the Anglo settler state. The author is one of the key scholars involved from the doctrine's appearance in the early 1980s as an exhortation to the courts, and a figure who has both witnessed and contributed to its acceptance and subsequent pattern of development. He looks critically at the early conceptualisation of the doctrine, its doctrinal elaboration in Canada and Australia - the busiest jurisdictions - through a proprietary paradigm located primarily (and constrictively) inside adjudicative processes. He also considers the issues of inter-disciplinary thought and practice arising from national legal systems' recognition of aboriginal land rights, including the emergent and associated themes of self-determination that surfaced more overtly during the 1990s and after. The doctrine made modern legal history, and it is still making it.
Aboriginal Land Rights in the Northern Territory
Author: Dorothy Bennett
Publisher:
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 38
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLegislative history 1972-81; lists all relevant legislation; section on functioning of Land Rights Act.
Indigenous Water Rights in Law and Regulation
Author: Elizabeth Jane Macpherson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-08-08
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1108473067
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA detailed study of the engagement of state law with indigenous rights to water in comparative legal and policy contexts.
Beyond Communal and Individual Ownership
Author: Leon Terrill
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-10-05
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 1317525078
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver the last decade, Australian governments have introduced a series of land reforms in communities on Indigenous land. This book is the first in-depth study of these significant and far reaching reforms. It explains how the reforms came about, what they do and their consequences for Indigenous landowners and community residents. It also revisits the rationale for their introduction and discusses the significant gap between public debate about the reforms and their actual impact. Drawing on international research, the book describes how it is necessary to move beyond the concepts of communal and individual ownership in order to understand the true significance of the reforms. The book's fresh perspective on land reform and careful assessment of key land reform theories will be of interest to scholars of indigenous land rights, land law, indigenous studies and aboriginal culture not only in Australia but also in any other country with an interest in indigenous land rights.
Urapunga Land Claim
Author: Australia. Office of the Aboriginal Land Commissioner
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 61
ISBN-13: 9781876591151
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This report is made to the Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Affairs (the Minister) and to the Adminstrator of the Northern Territory (the Administrator) pursuant to the provisions of a 50(1)(a)(ii) of the Aboriginal land Rishts (Northern Territory) Act 1976 (the Land Rights Act). The report relates to a traditional land claim made to an area of land in the4 Northern Territory commonly known as Urapunga Station. It contains my findings conserning the traditional Aboriginal ownership of the claimed land and my recommendation to the Minister for the granting of the land in accordance with ss 11 and 12 of the Land Rights Act."--Introd.
The Aboriginal Tent Embassy
Author: Gary Foley
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-07-24
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 1135037876
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 1972 Aboriginal Embassy was one of the most significant indigenous political demonstrations of the twentieth century. What began as a simple response to a Prime Ministerial statement on Australia Day 1972, evolved into a six-month political stand-off between radical Aboriginal activists and a conservative Australian government. The dramatic scenes in July 1972 when police forcibly removed the Embassy from the lawns of the Australian Houses of Parliament were transmitted around the world. The demonstration increased international awareness of the struggle for justice by Aboriginal people, brought an end to the national government policy of assimilation and put Aboriginal issues firmly onto the national political agenda. The Embassy remains today and on Australia Day 2012 was again the focal point for national and international attention, demonstrating the intensity that the Embassy can still provoke after forty years of just sitting there. If, as some suggest, the Embassy can only ever be removed by Aboriginal people achieving their goals of Land Rights, Self-Determination and economic independence then it is likely to remain for some time yet. ‘This book explores the context of this moment that captured the world’s attention by using, predominantly, the voices of the people who were there. More than a simple oral history, some of the key players represented here bring with them the imprimatur of the education they were to gain in the era after the Tent Embassy. This is an act of radicalisation. The Aboriginal participants in subversive political action have now broken through the barriers of access to academia and write as both eye-witnesses and also as trained historians, lawyers, film-makers. It is another act of subversion, a continuing taunt to the entrenched institutions of the dominant culture, part of a continuum of political thought and action.’ (Larissa Behrendt, Professor of Law, Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, University of Technology Sydney)
Finniss River Land Claim
Author: Australia. Office of the Aboriginal Land Commissioner
Publisher:
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13:
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The Commonwealth's Indigenous Land Tenure Reform Agenda
Author: Edward George Wensing
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9781922102591
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMy Country, Mine Country
Author: Benedict Scambary
Publisher: ANU E Press
Published: 2013-05-01
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 1922144738
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAgreements between the mining industry and Indigenous people are not creating sustainable economic futures for Indigenous people, and this demands consideration of alternate forms of economic engagement in order to realise such futures. Within the context of three mining agreements in north Australia this study considers Indigenous livelihood aspirations and their intersection with sustainable development agendas. The three agreements are the Yandi Land Use Agreement in the Central Pilbara in Western Australia, the Ranger Uranium Mine Agreement in the Kakadu region of the Northern Territory, and the Gulf Communities Agreement in relation to the Century zinc mine in the southern Gulf of Carpentaria in Queensland. Recent shifts in Indigenous policy in Australia seek to de-emphasise the cultural behaviour or imperatives of Indigenous people in undertaking economic action, in favour of a mainstream conventional approach to economic development. Concepts of value, identity, and community are key elements in the tension between culture and economics that exists in the Indigenous policy environment. Whilst significant diversity exists within the Indigenous polity, Indigenous aspirations for the future typically emphasise a desire for alternate forms of economic engagement that combine elements of the mainstream economy with the maintenance and enhancement of Indigenous institutions and livelihood activities. Such aspirations reflect ongoing and dynamic responses to modernity, and typically concern the interrelated issues of access to and management of country, the maintenance of Indigenous institutions associated with family and kin, access to resources such as cash and vehicles, the establishment of robust representative organisations, and are integrally linked to the derivation of both symbolic and economic value of livelihood pursuits.
