Sentences with phrase «land justice»

The possibility of genuine land justice is one such front, as is the capacity to participate as equal parties to a dispute, and as equal parties to its resolution.

However, in November 2009 the Victorian Traditional Owner Land Justice Group expressed concerned that the Victorian Settlement Framework was «in jeopardy as a result of disagreement over funding between the State and Commonwealth Governments».

At a meeting between ATSIC, ATSIS and the Victorian Attorney - General on 24 June 2003, the Victorian government announced its intention to develop a Cabinet submission on Indigenous land justice in Victoria.

The Victorian Land Justice Strategy proposes to encompass a number of existing initiatives at State and Commonwealth levels, namely:

How is the Australian Government going to deliver land justice for Aboriginal communities?

I continue to advocate this recommendation as I believe it to be fundamental to achieving land justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

The land fund commitment was realised through the Indigenous Land Corporation (ILC) which continues to operate today, but does not always provide an effective and accessible alternative form of land justice when native title is not available.

Some say that Victoria «is the State with the worst record on land justice in all of Australia».

Victoria may become the first state to achieve the sort of true land justice that was intended by the Native Title Act.

Just as the Apology acknowledged the consequences of fracturing families; just as the preamble to the NTA acknowledged the «consequences of past injustices»; so we must make these same acknowledgments in the business with which we are charged — getting back to basics... and making land justice real.

The ATSIS Victorian State Office has in recent weeks hosted a number of «Land Justice Information Forums» around the state, at which each of the five Commonwealth agencies (ATSIC, NNTT, ILC, NTSV and CFC) provided information on the respective roles of their organisations in relation to native title, land acquisition, land management, natural resource management and other land related issues.

In the Framework, ATSIC identified key policy initiatives required to ensure the achievement of native title and land justice outcomes for Aboriginal people in Victoria.

A historic meeting of Traditional Owners of Victoria was convened with the meeting endorsing a statement calling on the State Government to consider a raft of land justice measures.

Julian Sendin, a Senior Researcher at Ndifuna Ukwazi — an activist organisation and law centre working to advance urban land justice — says: «Inclusionary zoning is a basic intervention used by top cities around the world to ensure that private developers build a fair amount of truly affordable housing in exchange for additional development rights.»

The Framework and the Victorian Indigenous Land Justice Strategy provide the basis of a comprehensive policy framework for native title negotiations and are consistent with the government's broader Indigenous policies.

Most of these issues have also been identified in Senator Siewert's Native Title Amendment (Reform) Bill 2011 (Cth) as being in need of reform to deliver land justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

[6] This framework has the potential to go a long way towards achieving land justice in Victoria.

The announcement has implications for ATSIC's Victorian Indigenous Land Justice Strategy as it is expected that the Cabinet submission will address many of the issues that ATSIC intends to pursue through its strategy (that is, land claims settlement, cultural heritage reform).

The phrase «climate justice» does not assume climate to be a conscious agent, any more than a phrase such as «food justice» or «land justice» assumes food or land to be agents of the same order as a human being.

-- Avril 2010 — Canadian Lawyer, «The Right Fit» — Avril 2010 — National Magazine's Addendum, «How to Land a Justice» — Juin 2009 — National Magazine's Addendum, «When Contests Become Personal» — Juin 2009 — National Magazine's Addendum, «Small Firm Lawyer at the SCC» — Avril 2009 — National Magazine's Addendum, «Labour Law: Shelter in the Storm?»

-- April 2010 — Canadian Lawyer, «The Right Fit» — April 2010 — National Magazine's Addendum, «How to Land a Justice» — June 2009 — National Magazine's Addendum, «When Contests Become Personal» — June 2009 — National Magazine's Addendum, «Small Firm Lawyer at the SCC» — April 2009 — National Magazine's Addendum, «Labour Law: Shelter in the Storm?»

From secluded dinners on the beach, boat trips discovering the clear waters and its inhabitants, all the way to the sun caressing your skin, there truly aren't enough words that could give this hidden jewel of an is - land the justice is so strongly deserves.

[14] Victorian Traditional Owner Land Justice Group, Towards a Framework Agreement between The State of Victoria and the Victorian Traditional Owner Land Justice Group, Discussion Paper, 26 August 2006, p 5.

In principle I am supportive of an Alternative Settlement process that provides an opportunity for land justice to native title claimants.

Land Justice is an absolute priority.

That Steering Committee was tasked with recommending a new policy framework for native title and land justice.

The Victorian Indigenous Land Justice Strategy which builds upon ATSIC's Framework, was proposed by the ATSIC Victorian State Advisory Committee and the ATSIS Victorian State Office to formalise the pursuit of Aboriginal land aspirations in Victoria.

This is an example of reforms made in partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples which begins to create a fairer process for land justice.

I encourage other states and territories to follow the lead of Victoria and work with the Australian Government to explore options for more flexible and less costly ways to achieve land justice.

While Aboriginal people in Victoria have successfully fought for important mechanisms such as the Victorian Aboriginal Justice Agreement and Traditional Owner Settlement Act, our failure to pay reparations for stolen children or stolen wages, deliver land justice, close the gap in life expectancy or prevent overrepresentation of Aboriginal people in prison, shows we have much to do to make amends and achieve equity.

Additionally, the Land Justice Group specifically asked the Victorian Government in 2006 to amend their Aboriginal Heritage Act to include the protection «folklore» as defined in Part IIA of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984.