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land rights
High Court Findings
URL
1992
Canberra, High Court Decision, 03/06/1992, High Court judgement, land rights, Mabo Case, Mabo judgement, terra nullius
Landmark ruling on land rights
Newspaper
1992
land rights, Mabo Case, Mabo judgement
Scales from the eyes of justice
Text
1992
High Court judgement, land rights, Mabo Case, Mer, Murray Island
Eddie Mabo's address to Land Rights Conference
Image and Text
1981
conference, land rights, land rights, Land Rights Conference, 1981, Mabo, Edward Koiki, Mer, Townsville
Eddie Mabo's address to Land Rights Conference
Image and Text
1981
conference, land rights, land rights, Land Rights Conference, 1981, Mabo, Edward Koiki, Mer, Townsville
...land belonging to no-one...
Video
1788
colonial warfare, colonisation, crown land, doctrine of tenure, extinguishment, Land Bilong Islanders, land rights, settlements, sovereignty, terra nullius
The Gove Case Issues
Text
1971
Blackburn, Justice, extinguishment, Gove, land rights, native title, Northern Territory, recognition, Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, Yolgnu
Gove Peninsula Land Rights Case
Image
1970
Australia, claim, Gove, Gove Case, land rights, Nabalco, Yirrkala
Land Rights Conference
Topic
1981
conference, James Cook University, land rights, land rights, Mabo, Edward Koiki, Townsville
Land Rights Conference
Topic
1981
conference, James Cook University, land rights, land rights, Mabo, Edward Koiki, Townsville
...Students who had done race relations...
Text
 
conference, James Cook University, land rights, Land Rights Conference, 1981, Reynolds, Henry (Prof.), The Townsville Conference, Townsville
Flo Kennedy Attends
Text
1981
conference, Kennedy, Flo, land rights, Land Rights Conference, 1981, No Ordinary Judgement, Passi, Reverend Dave, plaintiffs, Sharp, Dr. Nonie, The Townsville Conference, Townsville
...Surrender, abandonment and extinction...
Text
 
Deane, Sir William, Federal Court of Australia, Gaudron, Justice Mary, land ownership, land rights, Mabo v Queensland No.2, native title, Yorta Yorta, Yorta Yorta Decision
Yirrkala & Gove
Topic
1963-1971
bark petition, Gove, industry, land rights, Marika, Roy, mining, Nabalco, Yunupingu, Galarrwuy
Land Rights and Social Justice
Image and Text
1996
aboriginal law, culture, custom, Dodson, Michael, indigenous Australians, land rights, sacred
Indigenous People & Their Land
Topic
 
custom, indigenous people, land ownership, land rights, land use, sacred
Legislation In Australia After Mabo
Topic
1990s
indigenous people, land rights, Mabo Case, Mabo judgement, mining, native title, Native Title Act (1993), pastoralism, political reaction
Native Title & Statutory Land Rights
Topic
 
High Court judgement, land rights, Mabo judgement, native title
Land rights legislation in Australia
Text
1976-
Aboriginal Land Rights Act (Northern Territory)(1976), Australian Court Case, Brennan, Justice Gerard, Cooper V Stuart, Kakadu National Park, land rights, Mabo v Queensland No.2, Milirrpum v Nabalco Pty Ltd, 1971 , native title, Northern Territory, Pitjantjatjara, recognition, reconciliation, resistance, South Australia, Uluru National Park
...I am a Yorta Yorta person...
Text
1995
land rights, Morgan, Monica, native title claim, recognition, Yorta Yorta
The Politics Of Native Title
Topic
1992-
citizenship, equality, human rights, land rights, national identity, native title, political reaction, politics
Belonging To Country
Topic
 
aborigines, Australia, dreamtime, indigenous Australians, land ownership, land rights, sacred
Bicentennial Protests
Video
1989
bicentennial, colonisation, land rights, resistance
A Humanitarian Tradition
Topic
 
Australia, colonialism, Cook, Captain James, First Fleet, humanitarians, land rights, terra nullius
19th century Aboriginal 'land rights campaign'
Text
1870-1895
land ownership, land rights
Colonial Warfare
Topic
1788-1929
Australia, colonial warfare, colonialism, colonists, genocide, land rights, martial law, massacres, Tasmania, war, Warlpiri
Science & Indigenous Australians
Topic
1960s-
anthropology, Eyre, Edward John, land rights
Second Dispossession & Indigenous Response
Topic
1901-1931
aborigines, Arnhem Land, Australia, land rights, reserves
An alternative view of reserves: the conference of Aboriginal organisations
Text
1958
activism, assimilation, FCAATSI Federal Council For Aboriginal Advancement , Hasluck, Paul, land rights, racism, reconciliation, reserves, Torres Strait Islanders
Lake Tyers
Topic
1861-1970
Aboriginal Land Act 1970, Lake Tyers, land rights, missions, reserves, Victoria
Lake Tyers Reserve
Image and Text
1861-1970
Aboriginal Land Act 1970, Lake Tyers, land rights, Nicholls, Pastor Doug, reserves, Victoria
Giving them a chance, giving us an out.
Text
1970
Aboriginal Land Act 1970, aborigines, Lake Tyers, land rights, ownership, property, property law, reserves, Victoria
The Gurindji Strike
Topic
1966-1975
Australian Labor Party, Communist Party of Australia, Gurindji, land rights, Lingiarri, Vincent, Northern Territory, pastoralism, resistance, strike, The Northern Territory Land Rights Act, trade unions, Vestey, Lord, Whitlam, Gough
...Land, the underlying issue...
Image and Text
1967-1975
Aboriginal Land Rights Act (Northern Territory)(1976), activism, Australian Labor Party, Communist Party of Australia, Gurindji, land rights, pastoral industry, pastoral lease, resistance, resistance, strike, trade unions, Vestey, Lord, Whitlam, Gough
Increasing Popularity Of Land Rights
Topic
1960s
Aboriginal Advancement League, Australian Labor Party, land rights, politics, Whitlam, Gough
FCAATSI: Land Rights
Text
1969
1967 referendum, Aboriginal Advancement League, activism, FCAATSI Federal Council For Aboriginal Advancement , land rights
Press Criticism
Text
1970
1967 referendum, activism, Gurindji, land rights, Northern Territory, Vestey, Lord
Gough Whitlam and the mandate of 1967
Image and Text
1967-1968
1967 referendum, activism, Australian Labor Party, land rights, Whitlam, Gough
Don Dunstan's 1966 reforms
Image and Text
1966-1972
1967 referendum, activism, Dunstan, Don, Gove Case, land rights, reserves, South Australia, vote
Dr. H. C. (Nugget) Coombs
Image and Text
1992
1967 referendum, Arnhem Land, Coombs, Dr. H.C. (Nugget), Gove, Gove Case, land rights, Northern land Council, Northern Territory, Yirrkala, Yolgnu, Yunupingu, Galarrwuy
Public reaction to Gove decision
Text
1971
Blackburn judgement, Blackburn, Justice, crown land, First Fleet, Gove, Gove Case, land rights, Milirrpum v Nabalco Pty Ltd, 1971 , mining, Nabalco, Northern Territory, terra nullius, Yirrkala, Yolgnu
2nd Yirrkala petition
Image and Text
1971
Gove, Gove Case, land rights, McMahon, William, mining, Northern Territory, Yirrkala
Tent Embassy
Topic
1972
activism, Australian Labor Party, Foley, Gary, land rights, resistance, tent embassy, Whitlam, Gough
ABC TV NEWS, Tent Embassy
Video
1972
activism, Australian Labor Party, Foley, Gary, land rights, resistance, tent embassy, Whitlam, Gough
Roberta Sykes (Embassy activist) on the Embassy
Image and Text
1973
activism, Australian Labor Party, FCAATSI Federal Council For Aboriginal Advancement , Foley, Gary, land rights, resistance, Sykes, Bobbi, tent embassy, Torres Strait Islanders, Whitlam, Gough
The Aboriginal Land Fund Commission
Topic
1974
Aboriginal Land Fund Commission, Australian Labor Party, land rights, McMahon, William, Northern Territory, Whitlam, Gough
Aboriginal Land Fund Commission
Text
1975-80
activism, Australian Labor Party, land rights, McMahon, William, Northern Territory, resistance, Whitlam, Gough
The Whitlam Government & Land Rights
Topic
1972-1975
Australian Labor Party, land rights, Whitlam, Gough
Justice A.E.Woodward
Image and Text
1973-1974
Central Land Council, Central Land Council, land rights, Milirrpum v Nabalco Pty Ltd, 1971 , Nabalco, Northern land Council, Northern Territory, Whitlam, Gough, Woodward, Justice A.E., Yirrkala, Yolgnu
Whitlam hand back to Gurindji
Video
1975
Australian Labor Party, Gurindji, land rights, Lingiarri, Vincent, Northern Territory, Wave Hill, Whitlam, Gough
Whitlam's Gurindji Speech
Text
1975
Central Land Council, Coombs, Dr. H.C. (Nugget), Gurindji, land rights, Nabalco, Northern land Council, Northern Territory, Wave Hill, Whitlam, Gough, Yirrkala, Yolgnu
Northern Territory Land Rights Act
Topic
1975
Aboriginal Land Rights Act (Northern Territory)(1976), Australian Labor Party, Fraser, Malcolm, land rights, Northern Territory, Whitlam, Gough
The Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act
Text
1976
Aboriginal Land Rights Act (Northern Territory)(1976), Fraser, Malcolm, land rights, Northern Territory, The Northern Territory Land Rights Act
Ranger Inquiry
Text
1975-1979
Aboriginal Land Rights Act (Northern Territory)(1976), Arnhem Land, Fraser, Malcolm, Kakadu National Park, land rights, mining, Northern land Council, Northern land Council, Northern Territory, Northern Territory, Ranger Uranium Mine, Whitlam, Gough, Yolgnu, Yunupingu, Galarrwuy
Priscilla Girrabul
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Arnhem Land, Girrabul, Priscilla, Kakadu National Park, land ownership, land rights, mining, Northern Territory, Ranger Uranium Mine
Land Rights vs 'States' Rights'
Topic
1980-1992
land rights, States' rights, Whitlam, Gough
South Australia
Text
1966-1984
Australian Labor Party, Dunstan, Don, land rights, Pitjantjatjara, Pitjantjatjara Land Rights Act, 1981, South Australia, States' rights
New South Wales
Text
1973-1998
Aboriginal Land Rights Act, 1983, land rights, Maralinga Tjarutja Land RIghts Act, 1983, New South Wales, States' rights
Victoria
Text
1983-1987
Aboriginal Land (Lake Condah and Framlingham Forest) Act, 1987, land rights, States' rights, Victoria
Queensland
Text
1978-1991
Aurukun, Deed of Grant in Trust, Fraser, Malcolm, land rights, Mer, Murray Island, Queensland, reserves, States' rights, Torres Strait
Western Australia
Text
1979-1984
Hawke, Bob, land rights, Noonkanbah, States' rights, Western Australia
The (Broken) Promise Of National Land Rights
Topic
1983-1985
Australian Labor Party, Hawke, Bob, land rights
The Hawke Government's failure to live up its five principles of land rights
Text
1983-1986
Australian Labor Party, Hawke, Bob, land rights, Western Australia
...Land Rights...
Audio
 
activism, land rights, songs
Land Rights Stalled
Topic
1980s
land rights, Mabo judgement
The nineteenth century roots of late twentieth century 'enlightenment'
Text
 
1967 referendum, activism, anthropology, Australian Labor Party, Dunstan, Don, Hawke, Bob, humanitarians, land rights, Mabo judgement, New South Wales, Noonkanbah, Northern Territory, Queensland, Ranger Uranium Mine, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia, Whitlam, Gough, Yunupingu, Galarrwuy
Gove Land Rights case
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Blackburn, Justice, Common Law, Gove, land rights, native title, plaintiffs
...The doctrine of terra nullius...
Text
 
Canada, extinguishment, First Fleet, land rights, Mabo, Edward Koiki, Mabo judgement, Murray Island, New South Wales, New Zealand (Aotearoa), plaintiffs, Queensland, terra nullius, United States of America
Pre-Existing Land Rights
Topic
 
land rights, Mabo judgement, native title
Rations & Reserves
Topic
1800s
humanitarians, land rights, missionaries, missions, reserves
Resistance
Topic
 
activism, land rights, land rights, resistance, strike, unionism
Resistance
Topic
 
activism, land rights, land rights, resistance, strike, unionism
Terra Nullius & Australia
Topic
 
crown land, dispossession, doctrine of tenure, First Fleet, land rights, resistance, terra nullius
The Doctrine Of Tenures Reconsidered
Topic
 
crown land, doctrine of tenure, land rights, Mabo judgement
The Gove Case
Topic
1967-1972
Arnhem Land, Australian Court Case, bark petition, Blackburn, Justice, Gove, Gove Case, land rights, Marika, Roy, Milirrpum v Nabalco Pty Ltd, 1971 , mining, Nabalco, Northern Territory, Yirrkala
The Gove Decision Questioned
Topic
1971
Arnhem Land, Australian Court Case, bark petition, Blackburn, Justice, Canada, Gove, Gove Case, land rights, Milirrpum v Nabalco Pty Ltd, 1971 , mining, Nabalco, Northern Territory, Yirrkala
Aboriginal land rights plea is turned down
Newspaper
1972
Australian Court Case, Coombs, Dr. H.C. (Nugget), Gove, Gove Case, land rights, McMahon, William, Milirrpum v Nabalco Pty Ltd, 1971 , Nabalco, Yirrkala
Tent 'Embassy' defiant
Newspaper
1972
activism, Canberra, land rights, land rights, tent embassy, Whitlam, Gough
Tent 'Embassy' defiant
Newspaper
1972
activism, Canberra, land rights, land rights, tent embassy, Whitlam, Gough
A price on our guilt
Newspaper
1972
activism, Canberra, land rights, McMahon, William, tent embassy, Whitlam, Gough
Charity Or Compensation
Topic
 
humanitarians, land rights, reserves
Day of Mourning
Image
1938
aborigines, activism, Australia Day, 1938, conference, Day of Mourning (1938), land rights, Sydney
Bill Gives Blacks a Say in Mining
Newspaper
1972
Federal Government, Australia, land rights, mining, Northern land Council
Black Fellas Country
Video
1968-1972
Gurindji, land rights, Lingiarri, Vincent, Northern Territory, Wattie Creek