The paper Holding Title and Managing Land in Cape York considers «there is potential for the collective of land and sea management agencies from each sub-region, insofar as they are representative of traditional owners and native title holders, to become the formal constituents of such regional organisations as the Cape York Land Council and Balkanu».44 One advantage of this approach is the economies of scale that can be generated from bringing together smaller traditional owner groups that in themselves may not
viable economic units.
Such restructured governance architecture will facilitate overall national
economic productivity and bring about the necessary shift away from the present virtually unitary structure which encourages the 36 states and federal capital territory (Abuja) to rely on a philosophy of «sharing the national cake», and it will encourage the more
viable federating
units to focus on productivity and internally generated revenues.