government regarding the act; Concerns surrounding the impact of the amendments to the act on indigenous people; Highlights of what the amendments of the act means; Intention of the Queensland government to pass legislation which will permanently extinguish native title over a percentage of the state...
The recognition of native title by the High Court of Australia in its 1992 decision in Mabo v Queensland (No 2) 1 fundamentally changed the way in which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' interest in land was recognised by the general law of Australia. This was...
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The 2020 listing of leading Australian Native Title Law Firms (Traditional Owner Representation) details firms practising within the areas of native title and cultural heritage matters matters in Australian legal market who have been identified by their peers for their expertise and abilities representing...
Twenty years on from Mabo v Queensland (No 2) (1992) 175 CLR 1, there is change afoot in the tax treatment of native title. On 25 June 2013, the federal Parliament passed reforms which render certain payments to, or for the benefit of, Indigenous persons exempt from income tax. To qua...
Economic implications of inalienable and communal native title: The case of Wik forestry in Australia Wik people on Cape York Peninsula in Queensland, Australia, have been granted native title over 18,500聽km2 of customary land. This was seen as a coup by W... TJ Venn - 《Ecological Economi...
Mabo v Queensland No.1, native title claim, plaintiffs, Queensland, Queensland Coast Islands Declaratory Act , 1985 , Queensland Government ...Murray Islanders Prepare To Give Evidence... Text 1986-89 inheritance, Malo's laws, Moynihan, Justice Martin, Murray Island, native title claim, No Ord...
Native to America, the cane toad (癞蛤蟆) was introduced to northern Queensland 70 years ago to control sugarcane beetles (甘蔗害虫). The toads failed in that duty but spread across Queensland and into neighboring northern area. Now it calmly invades(侵略)the states of Western Australia and Ne...
is puzzling to economists, who like to believe that people tend to act in their own self-interest. " There was no pushing," says David Savage, an economist at Queensland University in Australia who has studied witness reports from the survivors. It was"very, very orderly behavior. " Savage...
NATIVE Title Act, 1993Native title rights to take resources for unconstrained or commercial purposes were first recognised almost a decade ago, but the significance and uptake of such rights in Australia is now heightened. Resource ownership and management are critical components o...