Sentence examples for of native title from inspiring English sources

"That's the big symbolism of native title.

"I'm one of the most experienced practitioners of native title in Australia.

Recognition of native title shows everyone that we hold the knowledge about our country".

Although there is an acknowledgement of the Gunditjmara people's traditional ownership, Lovett-Murray remains sceptical of native title.

Fraser was appalled by the conservative opposition to the High Court's Mabo judgment that recognised the existence of native title in Australian common law.

Allowing the case to proceed had been an "immense opportunity for traditional owners right around the country who wanted to seek compensation for extinguishment of native title".

It said assessments of cultural loss would vary between cases, depending on the relationship of the native title holders to their land, the nature of the compensable act and its effect on the connection.

Alongside the funds held by land-owning groups, there are funds held on behalf of Indigenous people in various statutory accounts, such as the Aboriginals Benefit Account in the Northern Territory and the Land Account of the Indigenous Land Corporation established as part of the native title settlement agreed between Aboriginal leaders and the Australian government in 1993.

One third of the native title corporations hold funds and assets as a result of these arrangements.

While lengthy periods were not inherently bad, she said, and were sometimes an inevitable and necessary part of the negotiation process, it was of concern if such periods were the result of additional and unnecessary requirements that are getting in the way of proving native title.

If indigenous Australians could demonstrate a traditional connection to their land, and as long as the land had not been sold to anyone else or affected by acts of government, native title could be claimed.In the current case, the traditional connection of the Larrakia to the land seems clear.