Sentences with phrase «indigenous forms of ownership»

Issues such as remoteness, education, health, job readiness, poor infrastructure and the failure of governments to respect Indigenous forms of ownership, including native title, are substantially more important and have a greater impact on the economic development of communities.

Not exact matches

Counter to this view is the fact that communal Indigenous land ownership reflects ancient traditional forms of property in Aboriginal societies, giving expression to Indigenous living cultures.

This formed another rationale for land rights: to give effect to the ownership of and connection to land by Indigenous peoples under their traditional laws and customs.

ATSIC has emphasised that there must be Indigenous ownership of the development of any forms of regional governance or their goal of ensuring Indigenous control and participation in decision - making will be seriously compromised.

However, any areas which are excluded from the grant of Indigenous freehold will continue to be held under inferior forms of title and ownership of individual lots will not be resolved.

An effective way of giving Indigenous people more opportunities for economic development is to provide them with improved forms of Indigenous land ownership, particularly in those parts of Australia where Indigenous land is held under inferior forms of title.

It provides an example of the Australian Government and state governments supporting a process which can achieve long - term resolution of native title and tenure and provide Indigenous people with a stronger form of ownership.

Indigenous land must not be treated as a lesser form of land ownership.

Tenure reforms should aim to provide Indigenous people with stronger forms of Indigenous land ownership.

The «lease» as a form of land title is being widely advocated as the best means of providing for home ownership and as a means of encouraging economic development on Indigenous land where the underlying title is Indigenous communal ownership.

The forms that ownership takes in Australia include the recognition of native title rights (pre-existing rights to land that pre date British settlement), federal, state and territory Indigenous land rights legislation (which provide for grants of land from the government), national parks legislation, reserve systems or the purchase of land by the Indigenous Land Corporation and Land Councils.

... Among indigenous peoples there is a communitarian tradition regarding a communal form of collective property of the land, in the sense that ownership is not centred on an individual but rather on the group and its community.

Further options are discussed in the Australian Research Council's Collaborative Research Project Governance structures for Indigenous Australians on and off native title lands, which seeks to develop recommendations for a more adequate fit between traditional forms of land ownership and control under traditional laws, and non-Indigenous forms of law and government.27