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The excavation of the Broadbeach Aboriginal burial ground in 1965, and the repatriation and reburial of the remains in 1988 played a significant role in the development of this Act, which was the state's first cultural heritage legislation, which culminated in this piece of legislation.
A range of laws applying to or of specific relevance to Indigenous Australians.A number of laws have been passed since the European settlement of Australia, initially by the Parliament of the United Kingdom, then by the Governors or legislature of each of the Australian colonies and more recently by the Parliament of Australia and that of each of its States and Territories, these laws ...
A 1946 amendment, like the previous versions, served only to strengthen the provisions of the Act. [1] The Aborigines' and Torres Strait Islanders' Affairs Act 1965 repealed the 1939 Act, and provided for the management of reserves and welfare for Indigenous persons (both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people). Under this legislation ...
Aboriginal Land Act 1978 [27] Heritage Act 2011 [28] Queensland: Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2003 [29] Torres Strait Islander Cultural Heritage Act 2003 [30] [31] South Australia: Aboriginal Heritage Act 1988 [32] Tasmania: Aboriginal Heritage 1975 [33] (Updated version of the Aboriginal Relics Act 1975, commencing 16 August 2017. [34 ...
After the Land Act (Aboriginal and Islander Land Grants) Amendment Act 1982 [10] had established a system for granting a Deed of Grant in Trust (DOGIT) rather than land title to Indigenous councils, the Community Services (Aborigines) Act 1984 (Qld) was effected in order to transfer land currently under the administration of the Queensland Government to locally elected Aboriginal councils, [11 ...
Before the Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act 1897, various religious organisations had established a number of mission stations, and the Colony of Queensland government had gazetted small areas as reserves for Aboriginal people to use. Once the Act was passed, all Aboriginal reserves became subject to the Act.
The realities of "living under the Act" were to profoundly impact upon the lives of Queensland Aboriginal people. Queensland's legislation influenced other parts of Australia, becoming the model for similar legislation adopted in Western Australia (1905), the Northern Territory (1910) and South Australia (Aborigines Act 1911, to take control of ...
[11] The Aboriginal Land Act 1991 (Qld) transferred into Indigenous ownership all previous reserve land under DOGIT (Deed of Grant in Trust) titles. [12] "The Warra people of the Hopevale Community of Eastern Cape York Peninsula in Queensland received acknowledgement of their native title rights in December 1997. The determination recognised ...