EVENT INFORMATION

16
December
1976

The Northern Territory land rights law receives assent

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๐Ÿ“… 16 December 1976 ๐Ÿ“ Australiรซ

The Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act established a framework for Aboriginal land ownership and claims based on traditional occupation. Land-rights organizing had made restitution a central political demand. The law, which commenced in January 1977, gave collective rights an institutional basis in the Northern Territory without resolving dispossession throughout Australia.

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Organisaties in dit Evenement

Central Land Council

Northern Land Council

Aboriginal land rights movement

Australian Parliament