Indigenous Land Rights Movement in Australia

The indigenous land rights movement in Australia concerns the rights and interests in land of Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islander people, and may also include the struggle for those rights. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Aboriginal peoples were often confined to reserves or mission stations, where they had no rights to land ownership.

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   the indigenous land rights movement in australia · Wikipedia · 19 min read

   The Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1976 followed protests and recommendations by the Aboriginal Land Rights Commission, and established the basis for Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory to claim rights to land based on traditional occupation. The statute allowed a claim of title if claimants could provide evidence of their traditional association with land. The modern land rights movement started with the 1963 Yolngu Bark Petition, when Yolngu people from Yirrkala petitioned the federal government to have their land and rights given back. The 1966 Wave Hill Walk-Off grew from a protest about working conditions into a land rights issue, with people claiming rights to land owned by Vesteys. The indigenous land rights movement in Australia included the Black Moratorium, protests held on 14 July 1972. In Sydney, marches from Redfern, Sydney University and other points drew around 6,000 protesters to Sydney Town Hall, including Aboriginal people, students and trade unionists.

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   "Aboriginal timeline: Land & land rights" · creativespirits.info · 4 min read

   The 1966 Wave Hill walk-off began when stockmen and women protested intolerable working conditions and inadequate wages. They established a camp at Watti Creek and demanded the return of some of their traditional lands, beginning a seven-year Gurindji fight to obtain title to their land.

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   The Yield · Bookshop.org

   The Yield by Tara June Winch weaves personal and historical narratives to explore Indigenous identity and the impact of colonization on land rights.

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