SECURE LAND RIGHTS FOR MARGINALIZED GROUPS WILL ACCELERATE MDGS...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 28, 2007 ;     280 words ......Commission for Africa (ECA) says secure land rights in Africa would accelerate the achievement of all eight MDGs. "Land rights are directly linked to the establishment...year. The report argues that secure land rights can enhance the use of land resources...

Recognizing Aboriginal Title: The Mabo Case and Indigenous Resistance to...

Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal;  June 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Recognizing Aboriginal Title: The Mabo Case and Indigenous Resistance...Recognizing Aboriginal Title: The Mabo Case and Indigenous Resistance...cases centered on Indigenous land rights, and their decisions continue...to his efforts to have the land rights of Murray ...

Hawke's Law: The Politics of Mining and Aboriginal Land Rights in...

Oceania;  June 1, 1993 ;     700+ words ......simplistic correlation between the absence of land rights legislation and the high rates of arrests...inquiries have satisfied me that the |land rights~ legislation in the Northern Territory...Commission -- that is, that provision of land rights for Aboriginal people has ...

Fed: Whitlam hands over deeds, earth, in land rights gesture

AAP General News (Australia);  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Whitlam hands over deeds, earth, in land rights gesture (EDS NOTE: STRICTLY EMBARGOED...Commissioner Albert Woodward to examine land rights. In August 1975, Whitlam flew to a remote...experienced no easier job dealing with land rights than did conservative predecessors...

Land Rights at Risk? Evaluations of the Reeves Report

The Australian Journal of Anthropology;  January 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......Frances Morphy and Tim Rowse (eds). Land Rights at Risk? Evaluations of the Reeves Report...to conduct a review of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976. Reeves...and economic costs and benefits' of Land Rights, `exploration and mining provisions...

FED: Reeves changes would abolish land rights Viner

AAP General News (Australia);  June 9, 1999 ;     317 words ......Australia) 06-09-1999 FED: Reeves changes would abolish land rights Viner By Rod McGuirk CANBERRA, June 9 AAP -Proposed changes to the Aboriginal Land Rights Act would abolish land rights, the Fraser government minister behind the Act said today...

Can quality independent research in Indigenous affairs be influential?...

Australian Aboriginal Studies;  September 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ......to one particular example, the Reeves Land Rights Inquiry of 1997-98 and subsequent events...With specific reference to Aboriginal land rights law in the Northern Territory, the article...recent historical events: the Reeves Land Rights Inquiry of 1997-98 and a subsequent...

China grapples with thorny issue of rural land rights (2)

Xinhua News Agency;  September 1, 2006 ;     637 words ......grapples with thorny issue of rural land rights (2) To complicate matters, local officials...services. "Without secure, long-term land rights, most farmers have little incentive...statements on strengthening farmers' land rights under the household contract responsibility...

FED: Blacks say include land rights in reconciliation

AAP General News (Australia);  January 4, 1999 ;     559 words ......01-04-1999 FED: Blacks say include land rights in reconciliation By Rod McGuirk CANBERRA...said the government could not exclude land rights from the reconciliation outcome scheduled...at instead is different ways in which land rights and land justice can be achieved. "Giving...

Fed: Democrats join attack on RSL s land rights stance

AAP General News (Australia);  May 24, 2000 ;     337 words ......Democrats join attack on RSL s land rights stance MELBOURNE, May 24 AAP...Aborigines should never have been given land rights. Democrats law and order spokesman Brian Greig said the RSL's anti-land rights comments showed the group's old...

Fed: Fraser govt pushes ahead with land rights legislation

AAP General News (Australia);  January 1, 2007 ;     607 words ......01-01-2007 Fed: Fraser govt pushes ahead with land rights legislation EDS: STRICTLY EMBARGOED...Gurindji people. But Labor's initiative, land rights legislation for the Northern Territory...follow through on its own promise of land rights legislation. Cabinet documents for 1976...

AUSTRALIA: SEN. EVANS SPEAKS TO SENATE ON ABORIGINAL LAND RIGHTS (NORTHERN...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  August 8, 2006 ;     700+ words ......relationship to land. The Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act, which is being...Australians can be rightly proud of the land rights act and the bipartisan spirit in which...will seek to radically reshape that land rights regime and, I think, in doing so it...

Fed: Democrats call for probe into land rights changes

AAP General News (Australia);  June 18, 2006 ;     248 words ......Fed: Democrats call for probe into land rights changes CANBERRA, June 18 AAP - Changes to Aboriginal land rights in the Northern Territory should be...slated debate on a bill to overhaul land rights for tomorrow, with the laws expected...

Fed: Mooted cuts to land rights an insult to Aborigines - Brown

AAP General News (Australia);  September 6, 2005 ;     156 words ......Australia) 09-06-2005 Fed: Mooted cuts to land rights an insult to Aborigines - Brown Australian...colonisation if it waters down indigenous land rights. The Northern Territory News reports...under proposed reforms to the Aboriginal Land Rights Act, traditional owners could lose ...

NT: Father of Aboriginal land rights dies

AAP General News (Australia);  November 13, 2006 ;     420 words ......11-13-2006 NT: Father of Aboriginal land rights dies By Tara Ravens DARWIN, November...last remaining fathers of Aboriginal land rights. In 1966, Mr Rangiari was one of 200...and the governor-general to have their land rights recognised. The campaign was finally...