Land Rights





Land Rights is Indigenous Australian seek a grant of title to land from the Commonwealth, State or Territory Governments.
Native Title is the recognition in Australian Law of Indigenous Australian rights and interests in the land and waters according to their own traditional laws and customs.
In 1963 Yolngu people of Yirrkala in NE Arnhem Land presented bark petitions to the Commonwealth proclaiming Yolngu Law.
Mabo case was 1992
Native Title Act 1993
Wik Case 1996
Tent Embassy a crucial development in the Aboriginal Land Rights movement was the erection of a small tent on the lawns outside Parliament House on Australia Day 1972
Question
Choose one of the above and write a one page Information Report.
Research the difference between Land Rights and the Native Title.