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Indigenous
Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander Commission - ATSIC
Australian
Indigenous Websites - Links
Australian
Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies -
AIATSII
Centre
for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research - a research centre
focusing on Indigenous Australian economic policy and economic development
issues, including native title and land rights, social justice,
and the socioeconomic status of Indigenous Australians
Central
Land Council - Northern Territory
FAIRA
Aboriginal Corporation - Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander
Research Action
Indigenous
Land Corporation - independent statutory authority to assist
indigenous peoples in Australia to acquire and to manage land
Map
of Aboriginal Australia - created by Dr David Horton
Northern
Land Council - Northern Territory
Report
on Australian Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights
- Our Culture: Our Future
Native
title
Building
Reconciliation - Protocol - agreement between the Queensland
Government and the Queensland Indigenous Working Group
Croker
Island Native Title Claim - Northern Land
Council commentary
Indigenous
Land Use Agreements
(ILUAs) - Native Title Services - PDF file
Native
Title Research Unit - a unit of AIATSIS
Native
Title Services - Queensland Department of Premier and Cabinet
Native
Title - The Queensland Response - a guide to the overall State
Government position
National
Native Title Tribunal - the Commonwealth Government body that
facilitates the making of agreements among those whose rights or
interests may co-exist with native title
Valuing
Native Title - articles by John Sheehan, Native Title Spokesman
for the Australian Property Institute
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Co-management
Biological
Diversity and Indigenous Knowledge
- Parliamentary Library of Australia Research Paper
Clayoquot
Biosphere Trust - Canadian Biosphere Project
Collaboration
for Better Aboriginal Land Management Project - Tropical Savannas
Cooperative Research Centre papers
Indigenous
management of protected areas - DFAT - The Australian Government,
which manages protected areas established on lands under its direct
control, has entered into joint management with the traditional
owners of three national parks
Indigenous
unit for Tropical Environmental Management - Tropical Savannas
CRCs Masters course in tropical environmental management explores
issues in indigenous land management
Saltwater
Country: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Interest in Ocean
Policy Development and Implementation - Australia's Ocean Policy
Issues Paper - Socio-cultural Considerations - includes Involvement
of indigenous people in marine management
Joint
ventures - Key committments with Balkanu, Cape York - Balkanu
is addressing these issues by campaigning for autonomous methods
of project design and implementation through dialogue with various
levels of government, corporate groups, environment organisations
and educational institutions
National
Indigenous Land Strategy 2001-2006 - Indigenous Land Corporation
draft
Recognition
Rights and Reform - Indigenous Peoples and the Environment -
ATSIC socila justice paper
Working
with Indigenous Communities Through Joint Management
- Environment Australia
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Cape
York
Cape
York Land Council - native title representative body
Balkanu
Cape York Development Corporation
Cape
York Partnerships - Innovative development progam
Cape
York Peninsula Heads of Agreement - historic tri-partite agreement
Areas
of Conservation Significance on Cape York Peninsula - CYPLUS
Maps
of Cape York Peninsula - CYPLUS
Starcke,
Lakefield return to Traditional Owners - Land Rights Queensland
report
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Quandamooka
Redland
/ Quandamooka Native Title Process Agreement
North
Stradbroke Island (Minjerribah) Planning and Management Study
- PDF file
Quandamooka
Lands Council
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South
East Queensland
South
East Queensland Forest Agreement - Land
Rights Queensland special edition
Wilderness
Society summary of outcomes of SEQ Forest Agreement
Native
Title Representative Bodies Submission on the SEQ Forest Agreement
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Environment
Listing
of Queensland environment NGOs - non-government
organistions on this site
Greenpeace
Australia
Community
Biodiversity Network
Human
Rights and the Environment - the Sierra Club, USA
Humane
Society International
International
Union for the Conservation of Nature - International body providing
recognised protected area categories and advice on world heritage
nominations
International
Council for Local Environmental Initiatives - ICLEI is the international
environmental agency for local governments
Sierra
Club Wildlands Campaign
- an ambitious agenda to secure lasting protection for 100 million
acres of wild America
Mineral
Policy Institute - an environmental NGO mining watchdog
World
Commission on Protected Areas - To promote the establishment
and effective management of a world-wide representative network
of terrestrial and marine protected areas
World
Heritage - The UNESCO site for the World Heritage Covention,
sites, news
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Government
Australian
Heritage Commission - a statutory body of the Commonwealth Government
administered within the Australian and World Heritage Group of Environment
Australia
Australian
Biodiversity - Environment Australia
Australian
Local Government Association - Indigenous
Issues
CSIRO
Land and Water
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Department
of Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander Policy - guides to help non-Indigenous Queenslanders
understand protocols
for consultation and negotiation with Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander peoples
Draft State
Coastal Management Plan - Qld EPA October 2000
Environment
Australia (EA - The Commonwealth Department of Environment and
Heritage)
Indigenous
Protected Area Program - EA
Indigenous
Land Management Facilitator Program - EA
Indigenous
Communities and the Environment
- EA
The
National Reserve System - EA
Marine
Protected Areas - EA
Biosphere
Reserves - EA
Threatened
Species and Threatened Ecological Communities - EA
Great
Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority - EA
Cape
York Natural Heritage Trust Plan - Mid-term Review of the Natural
Heritage Trust - PDF file
National
Strategy for the Conservation of Australia's Biological Diversity
- the Commonwealth of Australia's framework for protecting Australia's
Biodiversity
Native
Title and Environmental Information Index - Queensland Department
of Natural Resources and Mines statements on native title and environmental
regulation
Wet
Tropics Management Authority
Queensland
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Indigenous
Cultural Heritage (EPA)
Protected
Areas (EPA)
State
of the Environment reporting (EPA)
The
conservation status of Queenslands
bioregional ecosystems (EPA)
National
Parks (EPA)
Endangered
Species Recovery
/ Conservation plans (EPA)
EPA
/ QPWS Native
Title Work Procedures - PDF file
Queensland
Natural Resources and Mines Resource
Net Atlas - a test website containing maps and information about
data on natural resources
Queensland
Parks and Wildlife Service - Draft
Master Plan for Queensland's Parks System
National
Park Management in Queensland - Local
Government Association of Queensland report - PDF file
Queensland
Government - Queensland Government departments, agencies, resources
and news
Legislation
on-line - Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel, Queensland
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Law
and culture
Aboriginal
Land Act 1991
- PDF file
Ben
Ward & Ors v State of Western Australia & Ors [1998]
- Native title exists in the "determination area" as defined
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Bringing
them home - Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation
of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families
Caring
for country - Reviewing protected areas in relation to native title
- A. Esposito, Land Rights Queensland, May 1999
Commonwealth
of Australia v Yarmirr (1999), Mary Yarmirr v The Northern Territory
of Australia (1999) - Federal Court Appeal in the Croker Island
case
Documenting
a Democracy - Pathways - map of Aboriginal Australia
created by Dr David Horton and produced by the Australian Institute
of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Draft
Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People - United Nations
Environmental
Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 - RTF file
Earthrights
International - the power of law and the power of people in
defense of human rights and the environment
Federal
Court of Australia - web site provides information about the
Court, its history, current practice and reasons for judgments
Gamak
Yi-Ni - the website of the Mirrar Clan
High
Court of Australia Cases - This database contains over 6,500
reported and unreported decisions of the High Court of Australia
Indigenous
Law Centre - UNSW Faculty of Law - publisher of the Indigenous
law Bulletin
Koowarta
V. Bjelke-Petersen (1982) - High Court of Australia
Mabo
and Others V. Queensland (No. 2) (1992) - High Court of Australia
Media
Reports of Land Use Agreements in 1997 and 1998 - ATSIC
Mary
Yarmirr & Ors v The Northern Territory of Australia & Ors
(1998) - First Judgement in the Croker Island sea rights claim
National
Parks and Wildlife Amendment (Aboriginal Ownership) Bill - (New
South Wales) Second
Reading
Native
Title (Queensland ) Act 1993 - PDF File
Native
Title Amendment Act 1998 - Commonwealth Legislation - RTF file
Nature
Conservation Act 1992 - PDF file
Norman
B Tindale - anthropological site of South Australian Museum
Our
Culture: Our Future - PDF File
Parliament
of Australia - Commonwealth of Australia
Proper
Way - ABC Message Stick - protocols, custom, culture
Reconciliation
Australia - the independent body established to provide a national
focus for reconciliation since the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation
ended in December 2000
Royal
Commission on Aboriginal Deaths in Custody - Reconciliation
and Social Justice Library
State
of Western Australia v Ward - includes summary & corrigendum
(3 March 2000)
The
Tide of History - Yorta Yorta Nations' Story
The
Wik Peoples v The State of Queensland & Ors; The Thayorre People
v The State of Queensland & Ors - High Court of Australia
Tindale's Tribal
Boundaries - maps of Aboriginal group boundaries at the time
of European contact
Yanner
v Eaton (1999) - High Court of Australia - The appellant is
a member of the Gunnamulla clan of the Gangalidda tribe of Aboriginal
Australians
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