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Northern Territory
Ocean Rights Win For Aborigines
Newspaper
1995
Australia, Croker Island, High Court Decision, 03/06/1992, Northern Territory, sea claims, sea rights
Land Bilong Islanders & Gove
Video
 
bark petition, Blackburn, Justice, Gove, Gove Case, Land Bilong Islanders, Marika, Roy, McIntyre, Greg, Nabalco, Northern Territory, Supreme Court USA, Yirrkala
Pain for this land...
Video
1967-1971
Blackburn, Justice, Gove, Gove Case, land ownership, Marika, Roy, McIntyre, Greg, Nabalco, Northern Territory, Yirrkala
The Gove Case Issues
Text
1971
Blackburn, Justice, extinguishment, Gove, land rights, native title, Northern Territory, recognition, Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, Yolgnu
...Land, society and culture...
Text
 
Australian Court Case, Fejo v Northern Territory (1998), legal pluralism, Mabo judgement, Northern Territory, recognition, Walker v NSW (1994)
Dreaming Creatures
Image and Text
1976
cultural preservation, culture, custom, dreamtime, land ownership, Northern Territory, Ranger Uranium Mine, Roberts, Silas, Roper River
The Miriuwung Gajerrong Determination
Text
1998
determinations, Federal Court of Australia, Kimberleys, Miriuwung Gajerrong peoples, native title claim, Northern Territory, Western Australia
Fejo & Freehold
Text
1997-1998
aboriginal law, crown land, extinguishment, Federal Court of Australia, Fejo decision, Fejo v Northern Territory (1998), High Court of Australia, Larrakia, native title, Northern Territory, Wik
Yarmirr Sea Rights
Text
1998
Australian Court Case, determinations, Federal Court of Australia, Native Title Act (1993), native title claim, Northern Territory, sea claims, sea rights, Yarmirr, Yarmirr v Northern Territory (1998)
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
Police v Yunupingu
Text
1998
aboriginal law, Deane, Sir William, Gaudron, Justice Mary, Gummow, Justice, Mabo v Queensland No.2, Northern Territory, Police v Yunupingu (1998), Wik & Co-Existence, Wik peoples v Queensland, Yolgnu, Yunupingu, Galarrwuy
Emu Song - Millingimbi
Audio
1963
cultural preservation, culture, Millingimbi, Northern Territory, songs
...hospitality and open-handedness...
Text
 
anthropology, Arnhem Land, coexistence, Hiatt, Les, land ownership, Northern Territory, Roberts, Silas
Aborigines of the Sea Coast
Video
1948
Arnhem Land, cultural preservation, culture, custom, Gove, hunting, Northern Territory, turtles
Times of Waringari
Text
 
anthropology, Bird Rose, Deborah, cultural preservation, culture, custom, Northern Territory, warriors
Arrente Women Dancing
Image and Text
1901
aborigines, anthropology, Arrente, Baldwin Spencer, Walter, Central Australia, cultural preservation, culture, custom, Northern Territory
A Group of Janjula
Image and Text
1901
aborigines, anthropology, Baldwin Spencer, Walter, cultural preservation, culture, custom, Macarthur River, Northern Territory
Fison & Howitt discover the clan
Text
 
anthropology, clans, Fison, Lorimer, Hiatt, Les, Howitt, William Alfred, kinship, land boundaries, land ownership, marriage, Northern Territory
Walter Baldwin Spencer Regrets
Text
1884-1938
Alice Springs, anthropology, Baldwin Spencer, Walter, Central Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland, religion, reserves, South Australia, Western Australia
The Horn Expedition
Image and Text
1894
aborigines, Alice Springs, anthropology, Baldwin Spencer, Walter, Northern Territory, religion
W. Baldwin Spencer & F.T. Gillen Across Australia
Image
1901-1902
anthropology, Baldwin Spencer, Walter, culture, Northern Territory, religion
W. Baldwin Spencer, Wanderings in Wild Australia
Image
1911-1912
anthropology, Baldwin Spencer, Walter, Northern Territory, religion
Gillen & Spencer
Image and Text
1920s
anthropology, Baldwin Spencer, Walter, custom, Northern Territory, rations
Special Institutions
Text
1890-1963
Arnhem Land, Gove, humanitarians, immigration, Kakadu National Park, missionaries, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, rations, religion, reserves, settlements, South Australia, supervision, The Northern Territory Land Rights Act, Victoria, Yirrkala
A model Aboriginal state
Text
1920-1927
activism, Arnhem Land, coexistence, dispossession, Gove, humanitarians, Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, reserves, Yirrkala
The government's view of reserves: protection during a transitional period
Text
1951-1963
assimilation, FCAATSI, Hasluck, Paul, missions, Northern Territory, racism, reserves, Torres Strait Islanders
Yirrkala
Topic
1976
Arnhem Land, bark petition, Blackburn, Justice, Gove, Gove Case, Kakadu National Park, Marika, Roy, Northern Territory, Yirrkala, Yolgnu, Yunupingu, Galarrwuy
The tradition of bark painting at Yirrkala
Image and Text
 
activism, anthropology, Arnhem Land, bark petition, Blackburn, Justice, culture, Gove, Gove Case, Kakadu National Park, Marika, Roy, missionaries, missions, Northern Territory, Yirrkala, Yolgnu, Yunupingu, Galarrwuy
Seagull - Yirrkala
Audio
1962
Arnhem Land, culture, Gove Case, Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, songs, Yirrkala, Yolgnu
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 not the issue in 1967
Text
1968
1967 referendum, activism, citizenship, Gurindji, human rights, Inter-racial Seminar, justice, Mabo, Edward Koiki, Northern Territory, vote
Press Criticism
Text
1970
1967 referendum, activism, Gurindji, land rights, Northern Territory, Vestey, Lord
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
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
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 Uranium Mine
Topic
1977-1979
Arnhem Land, industry, Kakadu National Park, mining, Northern land Council, Northern Territory, Ranger Uranium Mine
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
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
Text
 
Arnhem Land, Girrabul, Priscilla, Kakadu National Park, land ownership, land rights, mining, Northern Territory, Ranger Uranium Mine
Uluru handback 1985
Text
1985
Australian Labor Party, Central Australia, Hawke, Bob, land ownership, Northern Territory, Pitjantjatjara, Uluru
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
...Territory practically unoccupied...
Text
1889-1991
Australian Court Case, Blackburn, Justice, Cooper V Stuart, doctrine of tenure, Federal Court of Australia, Gove Case, Mabo v Queensland No.2, Milirrpum v Nabalco Pty Ltd, 1971 , mining, Nabalco, Nettheim, Garth, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Privy Council, terra nullius, Yirrkala, Yolgnu
Some ramifications of the decision for criminal law
Text
 
Aboriginal Land Rights Act (Northern Territory)(1976), Australian Court Case, High Court judgement, High Court of Australia, Mabo judgement, Mason v Tritton, 1994, native title, Native Title Act (1993), Northern Territory, R v Murrell (1836), Supreme Court of NSW, Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, terra nullius, United States of America, Walker v NSW (1994), Yanner Murrandoo, Yolgnu, Yunupingu, Galarrwuy
Crown Land Continued
Text
1845-1975
Attorney-General (NSW) v Brown, 1847 , Australian Court Case, Blackburn, Justice, colonialism, crown land, doctrine of tenure, Gove Case, land ownership, Milirrpum v Nabalco Pty Ltd, 1971 , Northern Territory, NSW v The Commonwealth, 1975, property law, Randwick Corporation v Rutledge, 1959 , Supreme Court of NSW, Supreme Court of the Northern Territory
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
Gurindji Mining Lease & Cattle Station
Image
1970
Gurindji, Lingiarri, Vincent, mining, Northern Territory, Wattie Creek
McMahon meets delegation from Yirrkala
Image
1971
Arnhem Land, Blackburn, Justice, Gove, Gove Case, McMahon, William, Northern Territory, Yirrkala
Mick Rangiari - Gurindji Tribesman
Image
 
Gurindji, Northern Territory, Rangiarri, Mick
Develop Ranger First
Newspaper
1977
Arnhem Land, mining, Northern Territory, Ranger Uranium Mine
Aborigines' Negotiator Now Rejects Ranger Agreement
Newspaper
1978
mining, Northern land Council, Northern Territory, Ranger Uranium Mine
Black Fellas Country
Video
1968-1972
Gurindji, land rights, Lingiarri, Vincent, Northern Territory, Wattie Creek
Two Arrente Women with a baby
Image and Text
1895
aborigines, anthropology, Arrente, Baldwin Spencer, Walter, Central Australia, custom, Northern Territory
Wardaman Women
Image and Text
1912
aborigines, anthropology, Baldwin Spencer, Walter, custom, Northern Territory
Tiwi Yam Ceremony
Image and Text
1912
aborigines, anthropology, Baldwin Spencer, Walter, culture, Northern Territory, Tiwi, yams
Gove Peninsula People At Court
Image
1970
Arnhem Land, bark petition, Gove, Gove Case, Northern Territory, Yirrkala