Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS)

Native title report 2011 /, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner

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Native title report 2011 /

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner

Discusses proposed changes to native title legislation, and legislation which may affect native title landholders such as the Carbon Credits Act; discusses four consultation papers released by the Australian Government during the Reporting period; De Rose Hill compensation application; international mechanisms addressing Indigenous human rights; reviews the recommendations from the Native Title Report 2010; discusses the meaning of lateral violence or internalised colonialism in the context of native title; aims to start discussions about lateral violence with Indigenous communities and ways of creating strong relationships with each other; explains how the experience of power and oppression plays out in native title; using identity as a weapon of lateral violence in native title; explores how the native title process contributes to lateral violence; presents case studies of communities minimising lateral violence - Quandamooka Peoples native title consent determination; Right People for Country Project - Victoria; discusses lateral violence as a human rights issue; discusses how the Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is being or can be implemented, for example the reuqirement to obtain free, prior and informed consent and the right to participate in decision-making

Executive summary -- Recommendations -- Chapter 1: Reviewing key developments in the reporting period -- Chapter 2: Lateral vioence in native title: our relationships over lands, territories and resources -- Chapter 3: Giving effect to the Declaration -- Chapter 4: Options for addressing lateral violence in native title -- Appendices: Appendix 1: Acknowledgements -- Appendix 2: Australian Human Rights Commission submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee's Inquiry into the Native Title Amendment (Reform) Bill 2011 -- Appendix 3: Recommendations from the Native Title Report 2010