16641 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Native Title Act 1993, Arnhem Land, Allodial Title
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Lecture 04 native title (pages 19 35) In the early 1960s, the commonwealth government sold part of what was then known as the arnhem land aboriginal reserve to a mining company. The traditional owners of the land, the yolngu people, were excluded from the sale. They responded by presenting a bark petition to the commonwealth government in. In 1968, the commonwealth government granted a 12-year mining lease to a company called nabalco pty ltd. It followed from this that the common law would protest any property rights that existed, and were derived from, the native title and custom of the inhabitants of. Native title in australia: common law (set out in mabo (no. 2): under the native title act 1993 (cth, under relevant state legislation conferring land rights. In this case, aboriginal people are the only people in australia who can hold native title rights under the doctrine of customary native title.
