A sacred land, a sovereign people, an aboriginal corporation : prescribed bodies and the Native Title Act

Sullivan, Patrick John; Australian National University. North Australia Research Unit

A sacred land, a sovereign people, an aboriginal corporation : prescribed bodies and the Native Title Act

Date

1997

Authors

Sullivan, Patrick John

Australian National University. North Australia Research Unit

Publisher

Casuarina, N.T. : North Australia Research Unit, Australian National University

Abstract

When, in 1992, the judges in Mabo v State of Queensland decided that Australian common law recognises a form of customary land title that Australian Aborigines possess despite colonisation, the excitement in many Aboriginal communities went beyond the simple expectation of the return of land.