Aboriginal land rights legislation in Australia
Commonwealth, State, and Territory Parliaments of Australia have passed Aboriginal land rights legislation.
The Aboriginal Lands Trust Act 1966 established the South Australian Aboriginal Lands Trust.
Victorian Aboriginal Lands Act 1970
As a result of the findings of the Woodward Aboriginal Land Rights Commission, a Royal Commission, the Fraser Government enacted the Aboriginal Land Rights Act in 1976, after its drafting by the Whitlam Labor Government in 1975.
Four land councils were established under this law. It established the basis upon which Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory could, for the first time, claim rights to land based on traditional occupation. This Act was the first Australian law which allowed a claim of title if claimants could provide evidence of their traditional association with land.
The Queensland 1978 Local Government (Aboriginal Lands) Act transferred land leases to the shires of Aurukun and Mornington.
The Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Land Rights Act 1981 of South Australia enabled land to be transferred to the Pitjantjatjara people, who had maintained a continuous connection with their land. However, the act provided no basis for claims by other groups.
The New South Wales Aboriginal Land Rights Act provided land rights for Aboriginal persons, representative Aboriginal Land Councils, vested land in those Councils, provided for acquisition and management of land, and for the provision of community benefit schemes by or on behalf of those Councils.
The Aborigines and Torres Strait Islander Act, brought in by Bob Katter, enabled the issuing of perpetual leases on existing Indigenous Lands in Queensland to Indigenous individuals.
The 1986 Commonwealth Aboriginal Land Grant (Jervis Bay Territory) established the Wreck Bay Aboriginal Community Council and grants land to the council.
The 1987 Commonwealth Aboriginal Land (Lake Condah and Framlingham Forest) Act vests land to nominated Aboriginal Corporations.
The purpose of the Victorian Aboriginal Land (Northcote Land) Act is to authorise the granting by the Crown of land at Northcote to the Aborigines Advancement League Incorporated. ABORIGINAL LAND (NORTHCOTE LAND) ACT 1989
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