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The passing of Aboriginal land rights legislation in Australia in the late 20th century was preceded by a number of important Aboriginal protests. The modern land rights movement started with the 1963 Yolngu Bark Petition, when Yolngu people from the remote settlement of Yirrkala, in north-east Arnhem Land, petitioned the federal government to ...
The Aboriginal Lands Trust Act 1966 (SA) established the South Australian Aboriginal Lands Trust (ALT). [226] This was the first major recognition of Aboriginal land rights by any Australian government. [227] It allowed for parcels of Aboriginal land previously held by the SA Government, to be handed to the Aboriginal Lands Trust of SA under ...
Today, Indigenous sovereignty generally relates to "inherent rights deriving from spiritual and historical connections to land". [1] Indigenous studies academic Aileen Moreton-Robinson has written that the first owners of the land were ancestral beings of Aboriginal peoples, and "since spiritual belief is completely integrated into human daily activity, the powers that guide and direct the ...
As a result of the findings of the Woodward Aboriginal Land Rights Commission, a Royal Commission, the Fraser Government enacted the Aboriginal Land Rights Act [6] in 1976, after its drafting by the Whitlam Labor Government in 1975. Four land councils were established under this law. It established the basis upon which Aboriginal people in the ...
A Labor government will not hesitate to use, where necessary, the constitutional powers of the Commonwealth to provide for Aboriginal people to own the land which has for years been set aside for them. Hawke's time in office brought a policy shift around Indigenous Australian self-determination and Indigenous land rights in Australia. [5]
The Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Land Rights (Suspension of Executive Board) Amendment Act 2017 "continued the Premier’s power, as the Minister responsible for Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation, to suspend the APY Executive Board for any reason he or she thinks fit, for such period as deemed appropriate, and for this power to be ...
The New Deal for Aborigines (or Aboriginal New Deal) was a landmark Australian federal government policy statement on Indigenous Australians.The policy was announced in December 1938 by interior minister John McEwen and detailed in a white paper released in February 1939.
The 1972 Larrakia Petition is a landmark document in the fight for land rights for Aboriginal people and helped drive momentum for the Woodward Royal Commission. [7] As such it was a precursor for the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1976. [6] [9]