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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 …
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 …
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 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 …
Privy Council (United Kingdom) — “Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom Erecting and Establishing the Province of South Australia and Fixing the Boundaries thereof, 19 February 1836” [1836] IndigLRes 1 Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom erecting and establishing the Province of South Australia and fixing the Read More …
Is this Evidence of the Crown’s denial to the Original Tribes of Terra Australis to form treaties? Bourke, Richard — “Proclamation By His Excellency Major General Sir Richard Bourke, K.C.B. Commanding His Majesty’s Forces, Captain General and Governor in Chief of the Territory of New South Wales and its Dependencies, and Read More …
Commissioners for Executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of Great Britain — “Secret Instructions for Lieutenant James Cook Appointed to Command His Majesty’s Bark the Endeavour, 30 July 1768” [Lieutenant Cook’s Instructions] [1768] IndigLRes 1 Secret Instructions for Lieutenant James Cook, Appointed to Command His Majesty’s Bark the Endeavour 30 July 1768 (UK) Read More …
Native title representative bodies, governments around the country, and countless participants in the resources, can all breathe a sigh of relief after the High Court unanimously decided that a representative body’s function of certifying applications for the registration of Indigenous land use agreements (ILUAs) can be carried out by the body’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Read More …
