Under this approach native title negotiations are not merely a conduit to a series of native title or non-native title outcomes aimed to benefit Indigenous people.
Instead,
under this approach the native title process can also be directed towards providing a vehicle for Indigenous development to occur within the cultural and political boundaries established by traditional laws and customs.
Under this approach native title is given the same procedural rights as non-Indigenous rights.
Not exact matches
A
native of Springfield, Mass., he had spent five years
under Bill Drake of Boston when he suddenly confronted the fact that he was
approaching 30 and had never moved beyond a certain level.
While this
approach offers an expedient process of administering
native title, it reduces the already inadequate procedural rights [17] available to Indigenous groups
under the NTA.
However the non-extinguishment principle can be used in a more potent way in framework agreements to overcome the narrow and discriminatory
approach to the recognition of
native title
under the legislation.
The Commissioner has made submissions on the «General Guidelines -
Native Title Determinations and Agreements» proposed by the Review, advising that the «process
approach» promoted by the Review takes place
under the provisions of the
Native Title Act 1993 which fails to meet minimum human rights standards.
Under the right to land
approach, adopted by Justices Lee and North, non-Indigenous rights are given priority but not so as to extinguish
native title whenever there is an inconsistency.
Various participants emphasised that if economic development is to be based on an agreement - making
approach under native title, there must be a pragmatic understanding of the contemporary
native title system.
An alternative
approach, more sympathetic to co-existence, would allow so much of the
native title right that is inconsistent with the rights
under the grant to be excised from the
native title right so as to eliminate the inconsistency, but not extinguish the
native title right completely.
Under the right to land
approach non-Indigenous rights are still given priority, but not so as to extinguish
native title whenever there is an inconsistency.
As demonstrated in my
Native Title Report 2000 the differential treatment of Indigenous people in the validation and confirmation provisions was justified
under this
approach by reference to notions such as certainty, the unlikelihood of real harm occurring, balancing the interests of stakeholders and confirming the common law.
[134] This is the preferable
approach under the
Native Title Act.
Under a rights - based
approach the
native title process provides a vehicle for Indigenous development to occur within the cultural and political values established by traditional laws and customs.
This
approach would also be consistent with the inquiries function provided for
under Part 6, Division 5 of the
Native Title Act.
Under the bundle of rights
approach native title is constructed as a highly specific and finite series of practices derived from a particular historical moment.
Under all its legislative guises, this
approach amounts to rejection of our culture and way of life», WAANTWG, Reaching Agreement: A better
approach to
native title in Western Australia, 1999, Perth, pp3 - 4.»