Aboriginal Land Rights and Native Title

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Aboriginal Land Rights and Native Title

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Land Rights and Native Title What is the difference between Aboriginal Land Rights and Native Title? Provide a clear explanation on how they differ in Australia through law and your understanding.

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Although Aboriginal Land Rights, mostly expressed as Land Rights, and Native Title are in some cases used in place for the other, legal provisions on the two are difference in various settings (Aboriginal Land Council, 2017). Land Rights and Native Title were legal concepts developed to recognize land rights for Aboriginal people in Australia. Under Aboriginal Land Rights Act (ALRA) of 1983, land is considered of economic, social, cultural, and spiritual importance to the Aboriginal people, while under Native Title Act (NTA) of 1993, land is recognized as rights or interests to an individual or group or traditionally communal (NSW Aboriginal Land Council, 2015 and Dodson and McCarthy, 2006).

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