Sentences with phrase «indigenous land owners»

This scheme provides a valuable means for Indigenous land owners to maintain control of decisions affecting their land.

In order for some communities to be eligible for housing funding, Indigenous land owners are required to provide a lease or sublease of at least 40 years to the Australian Government.

This can give the impression that by obtaining secure tenure, governments will be helping Indigenous land owners to make better use of their land.

Consistent with this principle, Indigenous land owners must not be required to forego any of their rights in relation to the land in order to receive essential services and infrastructure.

While there is some confusion about the aims of Indigenous land tenure reform, a common theme is the aim of making it easier for Indigenous land owners to make use, including commercial use, of their land.

In relation to decision - making, the Australian Government will not accept a term that requires the consent of the Indigenous land owners for certain key decisions.

[10] As the provision of housing is conditional upon agreeing to a lease, Indigenous land owners may be negotiating at a disadvantage and under duress.

The introduction of joint management of national parks in Queensland under the Cape York Peninsula Heritage Act 2007 may mean that Indigenous land owners can be formally recognised for sequestration provided through the management and maintenance of ecosystems, national parks and other reserve lands including intact forests on our lands.

Land management and maintenance of the biodiversity and ecosystems through programs including Working on Country and the development of Indigenous Management Agreements, as well as carbon abatement through fire management, and carbon sequestration may all be opportunities available to Indigenous land owners.

While this project has aspects that are somewhat specific to the northern savanna region, the premise of creating an offset project through partnering with Indigenous land owners or managers clearly has application elsewhere in Australia.

Not exact matches

Deficit and race - based assumptions in Indigenous education: At Thornbury Primary School in Victoria, all students (Indigenous and non-Indigenous) are taught the Woiwurrung language of the Wurundjeri people — the traditional owners of the land the school is on.

And we're also waiting on judgement on a matter in a remote part of South Australia in an area known as the APY lands, where ASIC has taken action against a store owner for providing credit to Indigenous consumers to buy basic household goods.

The Kuku Yalanji are the traditional owners of the land and you can learn more about Kuku Yalanji culture on a 90 minute Ngadiku Dreamtime Walk, which departs from Mossman Gorge with a local indigenous person as your guide.

A few statutes provide for compensation to be paid in recognition of the disturbance to traditional land from mining.77 A number of regimes provide for royalties, or an amount equivalent to the royalties received by the state or federal government, to be paid to the Indigenous owners.

Another strategy for assisting traditional owners identify their goals that is often used by Indigenous organisations, particularly in land management projects, is participatory planning.

It is essential that Government's seeking to implement changes to land rights or native title regimes, with the consent of traditional owners, must be careful to ensure that the legislation contains provisions that provide clear and effective decision - making processes; safeguards for the protection of Indigenous rights; and adequate resources so that land councils are able to effectively engage and advise on issues relating to the complex legal, economic, cultural and social implications of leasing Indigenous lands.

Reserves were established as areas of land to hold, control and protect Indigenous people as pastoralism and mining extended across Australia and the traditional owners were moved to make way for mining and grazing cattle and sheep.

The Commission urges the Authority, in its implementation of the legislation, to ensure that its actions are not only consistent with the procedural rights afforded to Traditional Owners by the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth), but that the free, prior and informed consent of Indigenous peoples is obtained before decisions affecting their lands and waters are made.

It provides a mechanism for divisions between different interest groups within the community, including between traditional owners and other Indigenous residents with an historical association with the land, to be discussed and resolved.

Another approach is required, such as directing a proportion of catch profits or mining royalties to traditional owners as «resource rental» (in recognition of their traditional property right to the resources being exploited); subsidising the purchase of, or granting without fee, commercial licences; providing an equity stake for traditional owners in development on Indigenous land; granting seed funding for Indigenous enterprises; offering contracting concessions to Indigenous businesses in development projects; and other means of facilitating the exercise of commercial rights that flow from native title rights and interests.

The current debate presents us with an opportunity to discuss innovative ways in which Indigenous land might support economic development desired by the traditional owners, and to build on existing rights.

A policy approach that redirected native title to the economic and social development goals of the traditional owner group would ensure that the emphasis of the native title system was upon strengthening the Indigenous structures that can ensure «proper utilisation of the land».

Before a home ownership scheme is developed on Indigenous land, the community residents and land owners and any native title holders must first be provided with all necessary information on home ownership.

On 13 June 2007, Jenny Macklin MP (then Shadow Minister for Indigenous Affairs) told the House of Representatives that the township leasing model «removed direct control by traditional owners over development on township land».

The Victorian Government values the contributions Indigenous groups, including Traditional Owners, make towards protecting land and biodiversity values, as we face the challenges of climate change together.

On 29 May 2008, the new Labor Government introduced the Indigenous Affairs Legislation Amendment Bill 2008 (Cth), which included a process for land owners and the Government to agree on «an amount to be paid» by the Australian Government for the five - year leases.

I do not believe that it is beyond the wit of traditional owners and the government to devise land tenure arrangements which streamline transaction costs without fundamentally undermining Indigenous ownership and control of their land.

recognises Indigenous governance within their traditional lands including recognition of native title holders as owners or joint - owners and managers of the land

Although human rights belong to all individuals, they have special significance for Indigenous people — the first owners of this land, members of its most enduring cultures, and individuals for whom the issue of rights protection has great and continuing importance.

Land rights legislation, which generally grants an inalienable freehold title to traditional owners (who are identified in accordance with traditional laws and customs and are communal land holders), and / or Indigenous residents of an Indigenous communLand rights legislation, which generally grants an inalienable freehold title to traditional owners (who are identified in accordance with traditional laws and customs and are communal land holders), and / or Indigenous residents of an Indigenous communland holders), and / or Indigenous residents of an Indigenous community.

In accordance with article 27 of ICCPR which requires the protection and recognition of Indigenous interests in land and with the effective participation and informed consent of Aboriginal traditional owners, a human rights approach supports:

While I welcome the Australian Government's intention to explore ways of facilitating the economic development potential of Indigenous land where this is desired by traditional owners, this opportunity must not be used to erode Indigenous control and ownership of land.

But where it does apply it has led to some large areas of land being returned to the ownership of some Indigenous traditional owners and communities.6

Some view this direct governmental supervision of many actual dealings in Aboriginal land as a survival from the paternalistic attitudes of an earlier age and argue it restricts the freedom of traditional owners to deal with their land.101 The requirement for Ministerial consent also adds another procedural step in granting a lease of Indigenous land.

Last year I conducted a national survey of Indigenous traditional owners and their representative bodies to record their views and experiences regarding economic development on their land.

To ensure the protection of rights and interests and the opportunity of traditional owners to effectively participate in decisions relating to their land, a human rights approach requires that the Western Australian Government act to protect Indigenous rights and interests in land until the resolution of traditional owner interests in conservation areas and appropriate negotiations can commence.

The first type of legislation does not generally vest rights directly in traditional owners of land or in the Indigenous community living on the land.

The existing land rights regimes also provide substantial security for traditional owners and Indigenous communities in terms of the inalienable nature of the freehold title to land, which protects spiritual connection to and cultural use of the land.

The Constitution does not acknowledge Indigenous peoples as first peoples and traditional owners of the land now known as Australia.

However, the NIC Principles also sought to maximise the opportunity for individuals and families to exercise a personal interest in those lands (and do not apparently restrict such personal interests to traditional owners, or even Indigenous persons).

The lessee is the person who receives or holds the lease.11 In the Indigenous context of land rights legislation, the owner is either a group of traditional owners of the land and / or the resident Indigenous community.

The preamble provides that governments have an obligation «(where appropriate) to facilitate negotiation on Indigenous economic land use».33 A grant of the native title right to fish for commercial purposes would allow traditional owner groups to use their land and waters for economic purposes and fulfil the objectives of the Native Title Act.

Land rights legislation generally grants an inalienable freehold title to traditional owners (who are identified in accordance with traditional laws and customs and are communal land holders), and / or Indigenous residents of an Indigenous communLand rights legislation generally grants an inalienable freehold title to traditional owners (who are identified in accordance with traditional laws and customs and are communal land holders), and / or Indigenous residents of an Indigenous communland holders), and / or Indigenous residents of an Indigenous community.

Recommendation 17: The Australian Government support the review of state and territory land use planning regimes in consultation with Indigenous organisations to ensure the Traditional Owners of the Indigenous Estate can exercise the right to free, prior and informed consent regarding land use planning decisions.

They have argued that the draft preamble is «divisive and insulting» and is entirely predictable in its failure to acknowledge Indigenous Australians as original land owners.

The Argyle Diamond Mine Participation Agreement (the Argyle Agreement) is a registered Indigenous Land Use Agreement (ILUA) between Traditional Owners of the East Kimberley region of Western Australia, the Kimberley Land Council and Argyle Diamond Mine (Argyle Diamonds).

Land and Homelands: Gaining increased access to country and homelands to improve social lifestyles, health and well being and recognising the Indigenous relationship with the land through legislative or other initiatives such as traditional owner joint management schemes and for the Native Title Representative Body to become accountable to the constituents through transparency of its operations and governaLand and Homelands: Gaining increased access to country and homelands to improve social lifestyles, health and well being and recognising the Indigenous relationship with the land through legislative or other initiatives such as traditional owner joint management schemes and for the Native Title Representative Body to become accountable to the constituents through transparency of its operations and governaland through legislative or other initiatives such as traditional owner joint management schemes and for the Native Title Representative Body to become accountable to the constituents through transparency of its operations and governance.

Where proposals will affect Indigenous land, contacting: traditional land owners, the Prescribed Body Corporate (PBC), local branches of Aboriginal Land Councils and the regional Native Title Representative Body (NTRB) is viland, contacting: traditional land owners, the Prescribed Body Corporate (PBC), local branches of Aboriginal Land Councils and the regional Native Title Representative Body (NTRB) is viland owners, the Prescribed Body Corporate (PBC), local branches of Aboriginal Land Councils and the regional Native Title Representative Body (NTRB) is viLand Councils and the regional Native Title Representative Body (NTRB) is vital.

These include increased legal and administrative costs in processing native title claims and Registered Aboriginal Party applications, delays to land dealings caused by uncertainty about who are the «right people for country», delays in native title and cultural heritage outcomes for Traditional Owners, and ongoing conflict and division in Indigenous communities.

Additionally, the Commission is concerned that as provision is made only for the public use boat ramps and jetties, it might not be an acceptable to Indigenous peoples whose lands are on Indigenous freehold and should not be publicly accessible without the traditional owners» permission.