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The Aboriginal Lands Act 1995 is a statute passed by the Parliament of Tasmania that came into effect on 14 November 1995. [1] It provided for the establishment of an elected Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania. [2] The Council consists of eight members elected by Tasmanian indigenous people. [3]
A range of laws applying to or of specific relevance to Indigenous Australians.A number of laws have been passed since the European settlement of Australia, initially by the Parliament of the United Kingdom, then by the Governors or legislature of each of the Australian colonies and more recently by the Parliament of Australia and that of each of its States and Territories, these laws ...
It was introduced in New South Wales in 1983 and repealed the Aborigines Act 1969. The Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 introduced land rights for Aboriginal people in New South Wales, [10] allowing the Aboriginal Land Councils constituted under the Act to claim land as compensation for historic dispossession of land and to support the social ...
Pages in category "Tasmania legislation" ... Aboriginal Lands Act 1995; P. Private Forests Act 1994; T.
The township of Fateng Tse Ntsho houses some 7,000 Black South Africans, its huddle of corrugated metal roofs surrounded on all sides by vast tracts of mostly empty grassland owned by prosperous ...
The Lands Trust Act 1966 was the first land rights law in modern times and predated the 1967 Referendum. It allowed for parcels of Aboriginal land previously held by the South Australian Government to be handed to the Aboriginal Lands Trust of SA under the Act. It was held in perpetuity for the benefit of Aboriginal South Australians.
Now, more than 100 years later, Black people make up 81% of South Africa’s population of 63 million, yet only own 4% of private land, according to a government land audit conducted in 2017.
Tasmanian Aboriginal mythology also records in their oral history that the first men emigrated by land from a far-off country and the land was subsequently flooded – an echo of the Tasmanian people's migration from mainland Australia to (then) peninsular Tasmania, and the submergence of the land bridge after the last ice age.