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$15,000,000 USD: 1803 2,140,000 km² 7 USD/km² Louisiana Purchase: Florida [9] United States Spain: $5,000,000 USD 1819 ~200,000 km² ~5 USD/km² Adams–Onís Treaty: Singapore [10] United Kingdom Johor: $60,000 Spanish dollars [11] 1824 728 km² ~82 Spanish dollars/km² Tranquebar, Serampore, and other continental holdings of Danish India [12]
The Australian dollar (sign: $; code: AUD; also abbreviated A$ or sometimes AU$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; [2] [3] and also referred to as the dollar or Aussie dollar) is the official currency and legal tender of Australia, including all of its external territories, and three independent sovereign Pacific Island states: Kiribati, Nauru, and Tuvalu.
South Australia was the first Australian state to introduce a land tax, based on the unimproved capital value of land, in 1884. [6] [7] In 1910, George Allen (first secretary to the Treasury) founded the Land Tax Office to service land taxes at the federal level as a form of wealth tax and as a means to break up large tracts of underutilised land.
Property Law Act 1958 [10] Sale of Land Act 1962 [11] Australian Capital Territory: Civil Law (Property) Act 2006 [12] Civil Law (Sale of Residential Property) Act 2003 [13] Queensland: Property Law Act 1974 [14] Land Titles Act 1994 [15] Northern Territory: Law of Property Act [16] Land Title Act [17] South Australia: Law of Property Act 1936 [18]
The Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara people (aṉangu) had lived in this area for many thousands of years.Even after the British began to colonise the Australian continent from 1788 onwards, and the colonisation of South Australia from 1836, the aṉangu remained more or less undisturbed for many more years, apart from very occasional encounters with a variety of European explorers.
The statutory provisions of pastoral leases are covered by the New Zealand Crown Pastoral Land Act 1998 and the Land Act 1948. The holder of the lease has: [11] the exclusive right of pasturage; a perpetual right of renewal of the lease for terms of 33 years; no right to the soil, and; no right to acquire the fee simple of any of the land.
In Australia, an Aboriginal land trust (ALT) is a type of non-profit organisation that holds the freehold title to an area of land on behalf of a community of Aboriginal Australians. The land has been legally granted to a community by the government under a perpetual lease, usually after the community makes a formal claim of traditional ownership .
These officials were responsible for setting up reliable systems to record land purchases and claims. The current Australian survey system is the geocentric datum of Australia, established in 1994. [8] It was adopted nationally on 1 January 2000. [9] Surveying is regulated at a federal level by Geoscience Australia. [10]