land rights movement - Aborig.

- The land rights movement in the 1970’s

What did these judgements mean to the spirituality of Aboriginals?

The phrase land rights did not appear until 1970’s, but there has been many protests and demands by aborigines about what societies had taken away from them, and the demand for this to be recognised and rectified (Mudge 1997 52).

When the overwhelming ‘yes’ vote received in the Referendum, it allowed Aboriginal people to be counted in the Census and the commonwealth was given power to make laws for them (Mudge 1997 52).

In the bicentenary of Captain Cook’s landing at Kurnell, the site that was previously home to the old Aborigines Protection Board at La Perouse a ceremony of mourning that called for ‘Land Rights – Nationally – Now’ was held. Prime Minister McMahon thought that land rights would threaten the security of Australians, and that Aboriginal people were to be granted spe

The 10 Point Plan outlines the Government’s proposed legislative response to the decision of the High Court in the Wik case. In Wik, the High Court decided that the grant of a pastoral lease does not necessarily extinguish native title, ie that native title can co-exist with rights conferred to pastoralists under the terms of their leases. The Wik decision took away no rights from pastoralists. However, according to Wik, where there is conflict in the exercise of those rights, native title rights are subordinate to those of the pastoral leaseholder.

cial purpose leases is they could demonstrate satisfactory economic or social use for them.

Aboriginal Land Rights Acts have been passed: in the Northern Territory (1976), South Australia (1981) and New South Wales (1983). Although these acts point towards the adoption of a policy of self determination, they do not provide the Aboriginal people the opportunity of self government (Lovatt 1993 139). Land rights are about land but for all indigenous people, and especially Australian Aborigines, it is more

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