Australian Native Title Anthropology: Strategic practice, the law and the state

by Kingsley Palmer

The Australian Federal Native Title Act 1993 marked a revolution in the recognition of the rights of Australia's Indigenous peoples. The legislation established a means whereby Indigenous Australians could make application to the Federal Court for the recognition of their rights to traditional country. The fiction that Australia was terra nullius (or 'void country'), which had prevailed since European settlement, was overturned. The ensuing legal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1760461873
• ISBN13: 9781760461874
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Anu Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"