Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
For example, in 1905, Queensland's Chief Protector of Aboriginals cited the Act to define a "half-caste" as "Any person being the offspring of an aboriginal mother and other than an aboriginal father – whether male or female, whose age, in the opinion of the Protector, does not exceed sixteen, is deemed to be an aboriginal". The Chief ...
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.
Canadian Aboriginal Law is different from Canadian Indigenous law: In Canada, Indigenous Law refers to the legal traditions, customs, and practices of Indigenous peoples and groups. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Aboriginal peoples as a collective noun [ 4 ] is a specific term of art used in legal documents, including the Constitution Act, 1982 , and includes ...
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 ...
Some of the targets of the League's campaigns apart from Hope Vale were: Queensland legislation which still discriminated against Indigenous people (the Aborigines’ and Torres Strait Islanders’ Affairs Act 1965 and its 1971 successors), police brutality (especially in Mareeba and Mossman [4]), the 1967 referendum, educational opportunities ...
In Queensland, the Aboriginal Land Act 1991 and the Torres Strait Islander Land Act 1991 provide for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander freehold respectively. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander freehold land occupies 5%, or 59,489 square kilometres (22,969 sq mi) of northern Queensland.
A Deed of Grant in Trust (DOGIT) is the name for a system of community-level land trust established in Queensland to administer former Aboriginal reserves and missions.They came about through the enactment by the Queensland Government of the Community Services (Torres Strait) Act 1984 and Community Services (Aborigines) Act 1984 in 1984, allowing community councils to be created to own and ...
Indigenous or Aboriginal self-government refers to proposals to give governments representing the Indigenous peoples in Canada greater powers of government. [16] These proposals range from giving Aboriginal governments powers similar to that of local governments in Canada to demands that Indigenous governments be recognized as sovereign, and capable of "nation-to-nation" negotiations as legal ...