Aboriginal Land Act - What do you stand to lose?
A determination delivers exclusive and non-exclusive rights over the defined determination area. The majority of a determination area will have been granted as non-exclusive native title. These rights will be over every piece of state land in the determination area. A negotiation will also be had over state land that has been used by the state and local councils the result of this negotiation is called reparations. Renewable energy projects are ultimately controlled by the Aboriginal Corporation of the determination area via a Independant land use agreement or ILUA. This gives the Aboriginal Corporation Mafia type control of the renewable energy project by being able to pull the cultural heritage survey to influence favorable negotiations for the Aboriginal Corporation and the corporations associated business partners.
State land or Crown land is land held on behalf of the public, for the benefit of the community. The government and community work in partnership to manage the Crown Land. Your park, stock route, reserve, river and beaches are Crown land.
Reserves have many purposes some include police reserves, camping reserves, Qld education reserves, camping and water reserves (stock route).
Exchange of State Land for Native Title Interest (Guidelines)
What do we want?
There are growing calls for the Queensland Government to stop giving away Crown land, held in trust for all Australians, as Aboriginal freehold until there is proper justification and open consultation.
Aboriginal freehold is not to be confused with Native Title.
The Department of Resources is offering huge parcels of unallocated State Land (USL) around 15 Queensland townships to Aboriginal Corporations in secret negotiations.
Three of the townships are: Toobeah, near Goondiwindi and Happy Valley and Eurong on K’gari (Fraser Island.) The government refuses to identify the other 12 towns.
There needs to be a moratorium on the Department from gifting the land to private interests without proper justification and open proper consultation with all potentially impacted stakeholders.
Since an amendment to the Aboriginal Land Act slipped through State Parliament in April this year, Aboriginal corporations no longer need to show they have “an appropriate use” for the land.
They just need to say they want it.
It smacks of a “dog-in-the-manger” type attitude being able to exclude non-Aboriginal Australians from accessing land which has been available to the public for decades.
It’s time the process undergoes a proper review before any more land is transferred as exclusive Aboriginal freehold.
Aboriginal Freehold for economic gain?
Aboriginal Freehold Land is Aboriginal land that is private property and its traditional owners hold it collectively, mostly through a unique form of freehold title under a Aboriginal Land Act. This title is inalienable, meaning it cannot be sold or mortgaged. It can though be leased or built on the same as regular freehold land.
Access the transcript of a workshop hosted by the Department of Resources by clicking below
