Category: Australian Dejure
TORRES STRAIT LETTERS PATENT 1878 ~ (Queensland Coast Islands Act 1879)
This legislation arose from requests for the lease of islands off the Queensland coast. Before this Act, Queensland had control of all islands within three miles of the coast and New South Wales controlled those beyond this limit. Queensland established a northern government centre at Somerset on Cape York during 1864 (relocated to Thursday Island Read More …
Treaty between Australia and the Independent State of Papua New Guinea concerning Sovereignty and Maritime Boundaries in the area between the two Countries, including the area known as Torres Strait, and Related Matters
Australian Treaty Series 1985 No 4 DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS CANBERRA Treaty between Australia and the Independent State of Papua New Guinea concerning Sovereignty and Maritime Boundaries in the area between the two Countries, including the area known as Torres Strait, and Related Matters (Sydney, 18 December 1978) Entry into force: Read More …
UN Declaration ~ Rights of Indigenous People.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples The General Assembly Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and good faith in the fulfilment of the obligations assumed by States in accordance with the Charter, Affirming that indigenous peoples are equal to all other peoples, while recognizing the Read More …
FOI.2021.008 Financial Statement of the Aboriginals Benefit Account.
An enquiry was pursued with the Agency for National Indigenous Australians seeking the most recent financial statement of the Aboriginals Benefit Account established under the Australian Land Rights Act 1976 for the benefit of the Aboriginal people. Below is the response and supplied information. The Larrakia people thank the Agency for their co-operation in supplying Read More …
The Politics of Inclusion: The Right of Self-Determination, Statutory Bills of Rights and Indigenous Peoples
Two relatively recent and overlapping developments potentially offer a new direction for the Indigenous self-determination project, which has been marginalised by Australian governments in recent years: first, the trend towards the domestic protection of international human rights through statutory bills of rights in Australian jurisdictions; and second, the burgeoning recognition of the right of self-determination Read More …
The Right to Self-Determination in International Law — A MATTER OF FORM RATHER THAN CONTENT
Philip Alston is the Chairman of the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and Director of the Centre for International and Public Law, Australian National University. He was addressing a seminar on the Right to Self-Determination organised by the Human Rights Council of Australia, in Canberra, on 1 September 1992. 3 pages. Read More …
The Right to Self-Determination and International Law
The concept of self-determination is virtually as old as the concept of statehood itself. Since its inception self-determination has undergone dramatic alterations inmany aspects, from a concept initially conservatively applied to issues such as decolonisation, to a justification for the break-up of multi-ethnic states. The concept may now extend towards indicating a right of self-determination Read More …