The 'Bindunbur' 'bombshell': The true traditional owners of James Price Point and the politics of the anti-gas protest

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dc.contributor.authorO'Neill, Lily
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-17T01:24:56Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.date.updated2020-06-23T00:54:35Z
dc.description.abstractOn 23 November 2017, the Federal Court handed down its judgment in the Bindunbur case, a long-running native title dispute over significant areas of the Middle Dampier Peninsula in the Kimberley, North-West Australia. The decision was called a 'bombshell' because of Justice North's finding that the Goolarabooloo family, long described in the media and by the public as 'traditional owners' of James Price Point and seen as leaders of the fight against the failed Kimberley gas hub, are not traditional owners of that area after all. This article argues there are several related reasons why outsiders mistook who are the true traditional owners of James Price Point. Firstly, an entrenched association in the minds of most non-Aboriginal people between Aboriginality and wilderness; secondly, outsider ignorance of Aboriginal law; thirdly, several key differences between the customary Aboriginal normative system and Australian settler property law; and finally, that it was essential to have traditional owner support for the No Gas campaign against the project.
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dc.identifier.issn0313-0096en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/210582
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherUNSW Law Schoolen_AU
dc.rights© 2019 University of New South Wales Law Journalen_AU
dc.sourceUniversity of New South Wales Law Journalen_AU
dc.titleThe 'Bindunbur' 'bombshell': The true traditional owners of James Price Point and the politics of the anti-gas protesten_AU
dc.typeJournal articleen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.issue2en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage618en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage597en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationO'Neill, Lily, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailu3974300@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidO'Neill, Lily, u3974300en_AU
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.absfor160501 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policyen_AU
local.identifier.absseo960604 - Environmental Management Systemsen_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationu3102795xPUB4877en_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationa383154xPUB12418
local.identifier.citationvolume42en_AU
local.identifier.thomsonIDWOS:000472146300008
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByu3102795en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttp://www.unswlawjournal.unsw.edu.au/en_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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