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Beyond Communal and Individual Ownership: Indigenous Land Reform in Australia book cover

1st Edition

Beyond Communal and Individual Ownership Indigenous Land Reform in Australia

By Leon Terrill Copyright 2016
316 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

316 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

316 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Over the last decade, Australian governments have introduced a series of land reforms in communities on Indigenous land. This book is the first in-depth study of these significant and far reaching reforms. It explains how the reforms came about, what they do and their consequences for Indigenous landowners and community residents. It also revisits the rationale for their introduction and... Read more

1. Introduction: From land rights to land reform  2. Land Reform: Theory, Terminology and Concepts  3. Aboriginal Land in the Northern Territory  4. Communities on Aboriginal Land  5. Australian Debate about Land Reform and the New Political Consensus  6. The Reforms  7. Making Sense of the Reforms  8. Alternative Approaches?  9. Conclusion

Biography

Leon Terrill is a Research Director at the Indigenous Law Centre and a Lecturer at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He has previously worked as a senior lawyer with the Central Land Council, coordinator of the University of the South Pacific Community Legal Centre and as a lawyer with Victoria Legal Aid.

"Beyond Communal and Individual Ownership　provides us with an entry point into that policy space, a vision of the policy alternatives that might be pursued in the future, and an analysis of the issues that will need to be addressed and determined whichever course is adopted. This is a very substantial achievement in itself." – Inside Story, Michael Dillon, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research at the ANU, Canberra

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