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Resetting our relationship with Aboriginal people : Comments
By Michelle Fahy, published 29/8/2011Given the amount of debate on Indigenous issues, the absence of the voices of the people concerned is telling. Walk With Us redresses this.
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Problem is without valid leases from your corporate land trust for your garden land you have NO ability to stop others coming in and taking your garden produce.
Living in houses without leases makes it hard to retain acquired assets for same reason.
Without valid leases from our corporate landowning "Trust" we have NO ability to exclude others...
Without a valid lease from our corporate landowning "Trust" we have no right to our own visitors - family, friends, tradespeople !
This is a product of Parliament(s).
Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) is the corporate owner/titleholder for 103,000 square kilometres under the South Australian 1981 Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Land Rights Act.
Various corporate "Land Trust" entities became owners by title shuffling under the Commonwealth's Aboriginal Land Rights Act (Northern Territory) Act 1976.
These acts allows these corporate "Land Trust"s to grant leases.
Exists NO requirement for them to issue leases.
Result is our corporate "Land Trust"'s amongst Australia's wealthiest and largest landlords with almost ALL their tenants living in dwellings/houses constructed and maintained using public funds, whilst almost ALL tenants denied valid leases because "...giving them leases gives them rights..."
Rarely do either APY or ALR(NT) corporate landowners issue valid leases, not even to "Traditional Owners", indeed they rarely issues leases to anyone - except governments !
This main reason development FAILS.
With leases people CAN develop themselves - despite our Taliban.