The right of indigenous peoples to own their traditional lands and waters, as recognized by common law.
the ruling recognized native title
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- This extensive multimedia resource explores issues from colonisation and indigenous culture to land rights and native title.
- Native title owners might voluntarily surrender their native title to the Crown in exchange for tangible commercial benefits for the local Indigenous community.
- Native title remains not only a landmark tool of Indigenous empowerment and Western recognition of Indigenous land rights, but also the symbolic lightning rod for so much about Indigenous rights generally.
- It drives me mad when you hear over and over again that 70 per cent of Australia is under native title claim.
- More than a decade of Australian native title law, relatively few native title claims have succeeded in court.
- The book promotes an Aboriginal perspective on native title.
- Many people have only a fragmented understanding of native title, gleaned from front-page news reports of the latest native title claim or political outburst.
- It took some time from the delivery of the Mabo judgment before many in government and business awoke properly to the implications of native title.
- The Australian High Court's 1992 decision in the Mabo case to recognise native title is one of the most important and yet misunderstood court decisions in Australian history.
- Banks sent confused signals about the precise impact of native title on financing and security arrangements.