Commonwealth, State, and Territory Parliaments of Australia have passed Aboriginal land rights legislation.
13-573: The Aboriginal Lands Trust Act 1966 established the South Australian Aboriginal Lands Trust. Victorian Aboriginal Lands Act 1970 The Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 (ALRA) provides the basis upon which Aboriginal Australian people in the Northern Territory can claim rights to land based on traditional occupation . It was the first law by any Australian government that legally recognised
26-513: A continuous connection with their land. However, the act provided no basis for claims by other groups. The Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 It is a New South Wales statute that was established to return land to Aboriginal peoples through a process of lodging claims for certain Crown lands and the establishment of Aboriginal Land Councils. It was introduced in New South Wales in 1983 and repealed
39-509: Is the short title of an Act of the Parliament of South Australia , assented to on 8 December 1966, with the long title " An Act to establish an Aboriginal Lands Trust, to define the powers and functions thereof, for purposes incidental thereto and for other purposes ". This Bill was introduced by Don Dunstan , who was then South Australia's Attorney-General and Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, and who later became Premier. This Act signified
52-568: Is to authorise the grant by the Crown of land at Robinvale to the Murray Valley Aboriginal Co-operative Limited and to extinguish a Crown lease and any other encumbrances existing over that land. The Aboriginal Lands Act 1995 created the Tasmanian Aboriginal Land Council and defined lands vested in the council. Aboriginal Lands Trust Act 1966 The Aboriginal Lands Trust Act 1966
65-724: The Aborigines Act 1969 . The Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 introduced land rights for Aboriginal people in New South Wales, allowing the Aboriginal Land Councils constituted under the Act to claim land as compensation for historic dispossession of land and to support the social and economic development of Aboriginal communities. The Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 provided land rights for Aboriginal persons, representative Aboriginal Land Councils , vested land in those Councils, provided for acquisition and management of land, and for
78-793: The Aboriginal system of land ownership, and legislated the concept of inalienable freehold title , as such was a fundamental piece of social reform. As a result of the findings of the Woodward Aboriginal Land Rights Commission , a Royal Commission , the Fraser Government enacted the Aboriginal Land Rights Act in 1976, after its drafting by the Whitlam Labor Government in 1975. Four land councils were established under this law. It established
91-738: The Victorian Aboriginal Lands Act 1991 was to revoke the reservations of certain lands, and authorise the granting of that land for Aboriginal cultural and burial purposes. These two acts, the Aboriginal Land Act and the Torres Strait Islander Land Act , superseded the Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (Land Holding) Act 1985. The purpose of the Victorian Aboriginal Land (Manatunga Land) Act
104-464: The basis upon which Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory could, for the first time, claim rights to land based on traditional occupation. This Act was the first Australian law which allowed a claim of title if claimants could provide evidence of their traditional association with land. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (Queensland Reserves and Communities Self-Management) Act 1978
117-483: The council. The Aboriginal Land (Lake Condah and Framlingham Forest) Act 1987 (sometimes referred to as the Aboriginal Land Act 1987 ) vests land to nominated Aboriginal Corporations. The purpose of the Victorian Aboriginal Land (Northcote Land) Act is to authorise the granting by the Crown of land at Northcote to the Aborigines Advancement League Incorporated. The main purpose of
130-657: The first major recognition of Aboriginal land rights by any Australian government. It also marked a return to promises made in the Letters Patent establishing the Province of South Australia in 1836, by establishing a land trust which would hold the title to and assume management of all the existing Aboriginal reserves in South Australia , for the benefit of the Aboriginal people. The Governor of South Australia assented to
143-757: The new law on 8 December 1966. The Act established the South Australian Aboriginal Lands Trust . The Act was repealed by the Schedule 1, Clause 6 of Aboriginal Lands Trust Act 2013 on 1 July 2014. Aboriginal Lands Act 1995 The Aboriginal Lands Act 1995 is a statute passed by the Parliament of Tasmania that came into effect on 14 November 1995. It provided for the establishment of an elected Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania . The Council consists of eight members elected by Tasmanian indigenous people . The Act enables that land of significance to Tasmanian indigenous people
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#1732852084194156-543: The provision of community benefit schemes by or on behalf of those Councils. The Aborigines and Torres Strait Islander Act , brought in by Bob Katter , enabled the issuing of perpetual leases on existing Indigenous Lands in Queensland to Indigenous individuals. The 1986 Commonwealth Aboriginal Land Grant (Jervis Bay Territory) established the Wreck Bay Aboriginal Community Council and grants land to
169-625: Was repealed by the Prime Minister and Cabinet Legislation Amendment (2017 Measures No. 1) Act 2018 . The Queensland 1978 Local Government (Aboriginal Lands) Act transferred land leases to the shires of Aurukun and Mornington. The Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Land Rights Act 1981 of South Australia (formerly the Pitjantjatjara Land Rights Act) enabled land to be transferred to the Pitjantjatjara people, who had maintained
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