- Title
- What has Native Title done to the urban Koori in NSW who is also a traditional custodian?
- Creator
- Foley, Dennis
- Relation
- The Social Effects of Native Title: Recognition, Translation, Coexistence p. 167-182
- Relation
- CAEPR Research Monograph 27
- Relation
- http://epress.anu.edu.au/titles/centre-for-aboriginal-economic-policy-research-caepr/c27_citation
- Publisher
- ANU E Press
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2007
- Description
- "Native title is a concept in the law of Australia that recognises the continued ownership of land by local Indigenous Australians … it is also an example of two distinct systems of law operating within the same geographic, national and jurisdictional space … however, to the extent of any inconsistency between Australian law and customary Aboriginal law, non-indigenous rights will generally prevail" (Wikipedia 2007). The Wikipedia definition of native title seems straightforward; non-indigenous rights prevail and native title recognises Aboriginal ownership of land—or does it? What does native title mean to the urban Koori who is born, raised and educated on their customary lands now called Sydney? These same lands are now occupied by some 4.2 million people who are representative of settler society. The Sydney population also includes a large number of growing Indigenous groups who are not the descendants of traditional owners. Rather the majority of Indigenous Australians in the specific example of Sydney and its environs are themselves usurpers. This is a paper on native title as it applies to Sydney: what native title is and what it isn’t, how it has been adopted by the black usurper and white coloniser and used as a process to deny Traditional Owners a voice in their rightful lands. The denial process is entwined within the legislation that is the Land Rights Act No. 42 1983 (NSW)(LRA).
- Subject
- native title; Sydney, N.S.W.; Indigenous Australians; Land Rights Act
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/923642
- Identifier
- uon:9776
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781921313516
- Language
- eng
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