Sentences with phrase «land rights act»

The first land councils were established in the Northern Territory under the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1976 (Cth) with a range of responsibilities to run land claims and manage existing land trusts by taking instruction from traditional owners on development issues.

New South Wales also has a land rights system, which is established under the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 (NSW).

Senator CROSSIN — Why does it have to be linked with this government's new agenda of changing the land rights act and allowing for 99 - year leases?

In New South Wales, Aboriginal people do not have to prove historical connection to the land in order to claim vacant Crown land under the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983.

The unnamed conservation park is under the Maralinga Tjurutja Land Rights Act 1984 (SA).

Under the terms of the MOU, the native title application is withdrawn and replaced by an application for a grant under the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 (NSW).

The Arakwal People also agreed to the surrender of their native title in three small parcels of land in exchange for the transfer of two of those parcels under the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 (NSW) to the Arakwal Corporation (Iron Bark Avenue Land and Paterson Street Land) and the opening of a public road.

Several other government departments (such as the Departments of Justice, Lands, Planning and Environment, Business, Industry and Resource Developments) have specific units which deal with issues of native title under the Aboriginal Land Rights Act.

Since the days of the Bark Petition, Aboriginal people have been aware that the protection offered by legislation — ranging from the Aboriginal protection ordinances to the Land Rights Act — is only as secure as the government of the day... We have long believed that the protection of our rights deserves a higher level of recognition and protection.

The anniversaries of the Wave Hill walk - off from Kalkarinji by the Gurindji people, the Northern Territory Aboriginal Land Rights Act, the report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and the launch of the Close the Gap campaign 10 years ago

It requires, first and foremost, a consideration of the Land Rights Act itself.

[18] Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Access to Aboriginal Land under the Northern Territory Aboriginal Land Rights Act - Time for a change?

Aboriginal land acquisition in New South Wales has been by a claims based process under the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 (NSW).50 Claims can be made for unused Crown land not needed for a public purpose.

A lease to someone outside the community will be further governed by the requirement to receive an entry permit to use the land in certain cases, such as in the Northern Territory and South Australia under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 (Cth)(ALRA NT) and Pitjantjatjara Land Rights Act 1981 respectively.

We have seen the COAG whole - of - government trials come and go; SRAs have fallen by the wayside; the Native Title Act and the Aboriginal Land Rights Act in the NT have been amended; Indigenous housing is to be mainstreamed; and the Community Development Employment Project — the biggest Commonwealth Indigenous funded program in Australia — has been abolished in all urban and regional centres.

The Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 (New South Wales)(ALRA (NSW)-RRB- was enacted with the primary aim of returning significant parts of the State to their Aboriginal inhabitants as a form of compensation and in recognition of the great spiritual attachment that Aborigines have to land.108 Another aim was based in the belief that land rights could lay the basis for improving Aboriginal self - sufficiency and economic well - being, through the purchase of economically viable properties.

The second scheme is set out in two pieces of legislation, both of which deal with the management of a single large area of Aboriginal land: the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Land Rights Act 1981 (SA) and the Maralinga Tjarutja Land Rights Act 1984 (SA).

The Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 (NSW) was enacted following a long period of activism by Aboriginal people throughout Australia for recognition of their prior ownership of, and traditional connection to, land and waters.

Under the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 (NSW), an account was established, whereby for fifteen years, the state paid an amount equivalent to 7.5 % of NSW Land Tax (on non-residential land) into statutory accounts administered by the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council (NSWALC), as compensation for land lost by the Aboriginal people of NSW.

Part 4A allows existing lands which form part of a National Park to be transferred as freehold title to the local Aboriginal Land Council established under the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 (NSW).

The Aboriginal Land Rights Act establishes a three - tiered network of Aboriginal Land Councils in NSW consisting of the NSW Aboriginal Land Council at the State level, thirteen Regional Aboriginal Land Councils and 120 Local Aboriginal Land Councils.

So it is a bit unnerving, coming from a land council reasonably well resourced to be able to carry out things under the land rights act, to actually get into a situation where people are absolutely desperate at the moment.

We were very fortunate to have been able to get our own land back, after many years of struggle, under the Northern Territory's Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1976.

The South Australian Pitjantjatjara Land Rights Act 1981 (SA) and Maralinga Tjarutja Land Rights Act 1984 (SA) vest ownership of lands in corporate bodies which comprises all the traditional owners in the area.49

The importance of compensation was also reflected in the federal Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 (Cth), where the implementation of land rights was expected to do «simple justice to a people who have been deprived of their land without their consent and without compensation».39 It also underlay the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 (NSW), the Tasmanian Aboriginal Lands Act 1995 (Tas) which seeks to promote reconciliation through grants of land of historic and cultural significance, and the Queensland Aboriginal Land Act 1991 (Qld) and Torres Strait Islander Land Act 1991 (Qld).

Land Rights Act also sets benchmarks for mining on traditional land.

As discussed in Chapter 2 in relation to the disposal of land under the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 (New South Wales)(ALRA (NSW)-RRB-, substantial problems have emerged.

At the domestic level, the principle of free, prior and informed consent is built into the Aboriginal Land Rights Act (Northern Territory) 1976 (Cth)(ALRA (NT)-RRB-.

Following the Prime Minister's statement, Wadeye traditional owners issue a statement calling for a «public and private housing scheme» without amending The Aboriginal Land Rights Act (Northern Territory) 1976.

The New South Wales Parliamentary Committee report which led to the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 (NSW) recommended that the New South Wales Parliament guarantee Aboriginal citizens the rights of self - determination in respect of their social, economic, political and cultural affairs.

The New South Wales Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 (NSW) established a statutory fund comprising 7.5 % of state land tax each year for fifteen years from 1983 to 1998.

The release of the Native Title Report is particularly timely given the current debates about alienability of Indigenous land and potential reform to the Northern Territory Aboriginal Land Rights Act.

Two key existing institutions were established in tandem with land rights to assist Indigenous landowners accumulate financial resources: the Aboriginal Benefits Account under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 (Cth) and the Statutory Investment Fund under the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 (NSW).

a grant of an estate in fee simple to the low water mark under and in furtherance of the purposes of the Land Right Act as revealed in its text and context conferred a right to exclude from the inter-tidal zone including a right to exclude those seeking to exercise a public right to fish and navigate.

* 9 Local Aboriginal Land Council unopposed non-claimant determinations that native title does not exist pursuant to s40AA Aboriginal Lands Rights Act 1983 (NSW) and 1 consent determination that native title does not exist to confirm a surrender of native title through Arakwal ILUA.

Not exact matches

Amending the Responsible Energy Development Act to include a requirement that the regulator must consider whether resource development applications are in the public interest, and reinstate the right of landowners to appeal environmental decisions affecting their land to an independent Environmental Appeals Board.

In short, dwelling in the land should be — must be — an act of imitatio dei, and, as the Hebrew prophets taught, to fail to embody that religious precept is to forfeit the right to dwell in that sacred place.

Besides, are you suggesting that we suppress anyone's right to free speech because if you are than you need to move to one of these bass ackward countries where a less than middle school quality production of a total farce can insight people to act as a pack of rabid dogs blaming America for why they live in dirt... We are LUCKY and BLESSED to live in a land where we can smile and walk away from an opinion that we disagree with... that South Park can but Jesus in a boxing ring against Satan and depict Moses as a glowing spinning dreidl... and these nutcases want to burn and pillage because one lunatic makes a childish and stupid play on videotape?

Isn't it Israel fighting all as a Jewish state her acts pushed every body to use her same weapon disguising crimes under religious covers depriving people from their rights, destructed their houses, cut their trees, took their lives and lands.

«While we are glad to see and commend the local authorities under international pressure acted swiftly and fairly to resolve the church's land with this right decision, we are still deeply concerned about the justice for this family of martyr which is still not done,» stated Bob Fu, China Aid's president.

We believe it is a fundamental and ongoing act of reconciliation, respect and celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and their culture that as a nation we support their right to remain on their traditional lands.

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With the growth in the commercialisation of public space, through sell - offs, a Peaceful Protest Act would also create a limited right of access to quasi-public land for the purposes of protest — as Tom Watson unsuccessful amendment to the Protection of Freedoms Bill attempted last year.

This includes the 2003 Land Reform (Scotland) Act which gives communities the right to buy their own land and the Scottish Land Fund which provides the financial means to buy the lLand Reform (Scotland) Act which gives communities the right to buy their own land and the Scottish Land Fund which provides the financial means to buy the lland and the Scottish Land Fund which provides the financial means to buy the lLand Fund which provides the financial means to buy the landland.

Our client, however, remains undeterred by the desperate efforts of some individuals to intimidate him and bend his will and rights against the constitutional provisions, the framework of Nigeria Police Force Act and the laws of the land.

If we insist that the Ghanaian everywhere act right, where will be the Ghanaian tolerance for abuses against the Ghana economy in the land of the Ghanaian by the aliens Mosquito and his unpatriotic team import into our economy from Togo specifically?

«Please know that I have contacted appropriate federal authorities to respectfully request that Denis Troy and the Town Board of the Town of Orangetown, New York be investigated for discriminatory land use actions and policy in violation of, inter alia, Title VII Of The Civil Rights Act Of 1964, and the Religious Land Use And Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA):&raland use actions and policy in violation of, inter alia, Title VII Of The Civil Rights Act Of 1964, and the Religious Land Use And Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA):&raLand Use And Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA):»

Two decades - old pieces of legislation — the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 and the Mineral Leasing Act for Acquired Lands of 1947 — give the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management responsibility for minerals leasing on more than 550 million acres of federally owned public lands, as well as state and private lands where mineral rights have been acquired by the federal governLands of 1947 — give the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management responsibility for minerals leasing on more than 550 million acres of federally owned public lands, as well as state and private lands where mineral rights have been acquired by the federal governlands, as well as state and private lands where mineral rights have been acquired by the federal governlands where mineral rights have been acquired by the federal government.