Contesting Native Title
eBook - ePub

Contesting Native Title

From controversy to consensus in the struggle over Indigenous land rights

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Contesting Native Title

From controversy to consensus in the struggle over Indigenous land rights

About this book

'This book debunks in spectacular fashion some of the most treasured, over-inflated claims of the benefits of native title.'Professor Mick Dodson, ANU Centre for Indigenous Studies'David Ritter's fascinating account of the evolution of the native title system is elegant and incisive, scholarly and sceptical; above all, unfailingly intelligent.'Professor Robert Manne, La Trobe University'An unsentimental, richly informed account of a fascinating period in the history of Australia's relationships with its indigenous people.' From the Foreword by Chief Justice Robert FrenchAfter the historic Mabo judgement in 1992, Aboriginal communities had high hopes of obtaining land rights around Australia. What followed is a dramatic story of hard-fought contests over land, resources, money and power, yielding many frustrations and mixed outcomes. Based on extensive research, enriched by intimate experience as a lawyer and negotiator, David Ritter offers both an insider's perspective and a cool-headed and broad-ranging account of the native title system. In lucid prose Ritter examines the contributions of the players that contested and adjudicated native title: Aboriginal leaders and their communities, multinational resource companies, pastoralists, courts and tribunals, politicians and bureaucrats. His account lays bare the conflicts, compromises and conceits beneath the surface of the native title process.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9780367717810
eBook ISBN
9781000256666

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. Prologue
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. 1 Reading the porridge
  10. 2 The dilemmas of the black leadership
  11. 3 Like unacknowledged bastards
  12. 4 State expectations
  13. 5 Mining rules and the sheep's back
  14. 6 Poets and slaves
  15. 7 You can take the judge out of the court...
  16. 8 The end of uncertainty
  17. Notes
  18. Index