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Native title (Australia) --- Land tenure --- Aboriginal Australians --- Torres Strait Islanders --- Law and legislation --- Civil rights --- Australia.

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Within the context of three mining agreements in North Australia this study considers Indigenous livelihood aspirations and their intersection with sustainable development agendas.

Aboriginal Australians --- Mines and mining --- Law and legislation. --- Mines and mining. --- Social conditions. --- Native title - Mining industry.

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The Australian Federal Native Title Act 1993 marked a revolution in the recognition of the rights of Australia’s Indigenous peoples. The legislation established a means whereby Indigenous Australians could make application to the Federal Court for the recognition of their rights to traditional country. The fiction that Australia was terra nullius (or ‘void country’), which had prevailed since European settlement, was overturned. The ensuing legal cases, mediated resolutions and agreements made within the terms of the Native Title Act quickly proved the importance of having sound, scholarly and well-researched anthropology conducted with claimants so that the fundamentals of the claims made could be properly established. In turn, this meant that those opposing the claims would also benefit from anthropological expertise.

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Law - Non-U.S. --- Law, Politics & Government --- Law - Africa, Asia, Pacific & Antarctica --- Native title (Australia) --- Social aspects. --- Aboriginal title (Australia) --- Australian aboriginal title --- Aboriginal Australians --- Land titles --- Torres Strait Islanders --- Land tenure --- Ethnology --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Native title.

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Native title has often been one of the most controversial political, legal and indeed moral issues in Australia. Ever since the High Court's Mabo decision of 1992, the attempt to understand and adapt native title to different contexts and claims has been an ongoing concern for that broad range of people involved with claims. In this book, originally published in 2003, Peter Sutton sets out fundamental anthropological issues to do with customary rights, kinship, identity, spirituality and so on that are relevant for lawyers and others working on title claims. Sutton offers a critical discussion of anthropological findings in the field of Aboriginal traditional interests in land and waters, focusing on the kinds of customary rights that are 'held' in Aboriginal 'countries', the types of groups whose members have been found to enjoy those rights, and how such groups have fared over the last 200 years of Australian history.

Aboriginal Australians --- Land tenure --- Native title (Australia) --- Customary law --- Aboriginal title (Australia) --- Australian aboriginal title --- Land titles --- Torres Strait Islanders --- Land tenure. --- Civil rights. --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Law and legislation --- Australia --- Race relations. --- Social policy. --- Politics and government. --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology --- Native title. --- Government policy. --- Politics and Government - Civil rights and citizenship. --- Law - Indigenous.