Title The land and the people : the Wik lectures 1998 / Alan Atkinson ... [and others] ; introduction by Walter Phillips ; edited by Richard Morton

Published Carlton, Vic. : History Institute, 1998

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Description x, 59 pages ; 25 cm Contents Introduction / Walter Phillips -- Land and people in Aboriginal Australia / John Mulvaney -- The British legacy: land disposal and use in early colonial Australia / Alan Atkinson -- Whose land?: recognition of Aboriginal ownership and the promise of compensation / Henry Reynolds -- The scramble for possession: pastoral leasehold and agricultural freehold, 1860-1900 / Bill Gammage -- The land and the people today: reconciliation / Frank Brennan Summary Series of lectures looking at the history of land ownership in Australia and the effects on current land rights of Aboriginals; terra nullius; Aboriginal traditional relationship to land; early recognition of Aboriginal ownership of land; Lectures by John Mulvaney, Alan Atkinson, Henry Reynolds, Bill Gammage and Frank Brennan entered separately Notes Lectures delivered in the "Land and the people" public lecture series, April-August, 1998 Bibliography Includes bibliography Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations. Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure -- Government policy. Land tenure -- Law and legislation -- Australia -- History. Native title (Australia) Torres Strait Islanders -- Government relations. Torres Strait Islanders -- Land tenure -- Government policy. Author Atkinson, Alan. Morton, Richard (Richard James) History Institute, Victoria. LC no. 00341277 ISBN 0958889872

Other Titles Wik lectures 1998

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