Land council

Land council

Land councils, also known as land and sea councils, are Australian government agencies which provide representation and organization of native title for Indigenous Australians. Most land councils were formed since the late 1970's to gain native title, and most propositions for land councils have been put forth to the state governments since the 1990's, particularly after the downfall of the terra nullius legal precedent in Mabo v. Queensland (1993).

Some land councils can be governed by other, larger councils, which federate multiple local land councils for representation at the state and federal level.

List of current councils by state

New South Wales

* NSW Aboriginal Land Council

Northern Territory

* Central Land Council
** Arrernte Council
* Northern Land Council covering the Top End
* the Tiwi Land Council covering Bathurst and Melville Islands north of Darwin
* the Anindilyakawa Land Council covering Groote Eylandt in the Gulf of Carpentaria.

Queensland

* North Queensland Land Council
* Central Queensland Land Council
* Torres Strait Regional Authority

outh Australia

* Anangu Pitjantjatjara Land Council
* South Australian Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement Inc.
* Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Land Council

Tasmania

* Tasmanian Aboriginal Land and Sea Council

Victoria

* Barengi Gadjin Land Council

Western Australia

* South-West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council
* Yamatji Bana Baaba Marlpa Land and Sea Council
* Goldfields Land and Sea Aboriginal Council Corporation
* Kimberley Land Council
* Ngaanyatjarra Council (Aboriginal Corporation)

External Links

* [http://www1.dvc.vic.gov.au/aav/heritage/Council/HeritageCouncil.html Proposed, succcessfully granted and declined land councils from the Department for Victorian Communities' Aboriginal Heritage Council website]
* [http://www.ausanthrop.net/research/rep_bodies.php Land councils]


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