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Terrill, Leon --- "The Days of the Failed Collective: Communal Ownership, Individual Ownership and Township Leasing in Aboriginal Communities in the Northern Territory" [2010] UNSWLRS 29

University of New South Wales Faculty of Law Research Series

The Days of the Failed Collective: Communal Ownership, Individual Ownership and Township Leasing in Aboriginal Communities in the Northern Territory [2010] UNSWLRS 29 (5 August 2010)

Last Updated: 26 August 2010

The Days of the Failed Collective: Communal Ownership, Individual Ownership and Township Leasing in Aboriginal Communities in the Northern Territory

Leon Terrill, University of New South Wales

This paper is available for download at http://law.bepress.com/unswwps/flrps10/art29/

Citation

This paper was published in the University of New South Wales Law Journal (2009) 32(3) 814-851.

Abstract

This article reviews amendments introduced in 2006 to the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 to provide for a new type of leasing on Aboriginal land called ‘township leasing’. While the township leasing is commonly discussed with reference to ‘communal ownership’ and ‘individual ownership’, the article argues that their real impact is to implement new governance arrangements for land use decision-making in remote Aboriginal communities in a manner that transfers authority to central governments. The article contains a detailed analysis of the amendments as well as of the two existing township leases.