Contesting Native Title: From controversy to consensus in the struggle over Indigenous land rights

ISBN-13: 9781742370200 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 250 str.

David Laurence Ritter

Opis

A comprehensive account of the native title system in Australia, and a balanced assessment of the extent to which it has fulfilled the hopes of Aboriginal communities for land rights.

Spis treści

Foreword

Prologue

Acknowledgements

1 Reading the porridge: Introducing the native title system

2 The dilemmas of the black leadership: ATSIC, the native title working groups and their successors

3 Like unacknowledged bastards: The native title representative bodies

4 State expectations: Executive government of the states and territories

5 Mining rules and the sheep's back: Non-government third party respondents

6 Poets and slaves: The National Native Title Tribunal

7 You can take the judge out of the court... The Federal Court of Australia

8 The end of uncertainty: The native title system in retrospect

Notes

Index

O autorze

David Ritter teaches at the Faculty of Law at the University of Western Australia. He is currently working in a senior campaigns position with Greenpeace in London.