'Worrying about our land' : conceptualising land rights 1963-1971 / Julie Fenwick
- Bib ID:
- 14573
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Fenwick, Julie
- Description:
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- Clayton, Vic. : Department of History, Monash University, 2001
- xiii, 43 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0732621615
- Series:
- Monash publications in history ; 36.
- Summary:
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Examines the emergence of the concept of Aboriginal land rights between 1963 and 1971, in the context of the Yolngu petition and campaign against bauxite mining on Gove Peninsula; relationship with non-Aboriginal people; use of land and the concept of land ownership.
- Notes:
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- This book addresses the hitherto neglected role of non-indigenous activists, and challenges widely held understandings of the bark petition presented to federal parliament in 1963.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 40-43)
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure -- History
- Land rights -- Australia -- History
- Land tenure -- Law and legislation -- Australia -- History
- Land rights - Mining industry
- Yolngu people (NT SD53)
- Culture - Relationship to land
- Politics and Government - Political action - Land rights
- Politics and Government - Political action - Petitions - Yirrkala Bark Petition
- Land rights - Ownership
- Race relations
- Nhulunbuy / Gove (East Arnhem Land NT SD53-04)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Monash University. Department of History
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1997
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