Lower Daly Land Claim (Claim No. 68) : report and recommendations of the Aboriginal Land Commissioner Justice H W Olney to the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs and to the Administrator of the Northern Territory
Published
Canberra : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, 2003
Report and recommendations regarding inquiry into traditional land claim made to beds and banks of, and islands in, a portion of the Daly River (Northern Territory); background information on land claimed; discusses inquiry's work; Aboriginal land in region; anthropological evidence; Wadjigiyn claimants; Werat group; competing claims; Banagula and Bwudjut estates; freshwater crocodile estate; traditional Aboriginal owners and strength of attachment; legal issues and secure occupancy principles; comments on advantage of grant and detrimental evidence relating to other Aboriginal groups, adjoining landholders, commercial and recreational fishing and Northern Territory government interests; summary of findings, recommendations and comments; list of traditional Aboriginal owners included in appendices
Notes
At head of title: Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976
"April 2003"
Explanatory statement by Senator the Hon Amanda Vanstone, Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs