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The Aboriginal Land Rights Movement

by Max Charlesworth. 53 pgs.

Contributors:

   Max Charlesworth

Publisher:

   Hodja Educational Resources

Place of Publication:

  Richmond, Vic  

Publication Year:

  1984

Subjects:

Australian Aborigines--Land Tenure

	Contents
	Introduction	4
	The land rights movement	5
	Movement or movements?	5
	Two attitudes to land rights
	Who owns Australia? The legal basis	11
	An unoccupied country	11
	A 'settled colony'	12
	Criticism of the 'settled colony' theory	14
	Aboriginal and European relations in Australia	15
	White attitudes	15
	The first stage of settlement	16
	The history of oppression: references	19
	A history of the land rights movement	19
	Beginnings	19
	The 'Bark petition'	20
	The Gurintji walk-off at Wave Hill	21
	Milirrpum v. Nabalco	23
	The Aboriginal Land Rights Commission (1977)	24
	Traditional owners	26
	Traditional attitudes to land tenure	26
	Anthropological views	26
	Local descent groups	31
	'Owners' and 'managers'	33
	The interpretation of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act	39
	Land rights: the present situation 41
	The States	41
	Significance of the land rights movement	41
	Opposition to land rights	43
	Aboriginal land rights in other countries	43
	Conclusion	44
	Resource materials	49
	Select bibliography	51

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