Solomonic Land Ruling Buffets Australia Anew Aborigines Warn of Protests if They Lose Titles

From: International Herald Tribune | Date: April 30, 1997| Author: Michael Richardson | Copyright information


International Herald Tribune

04-30-1997

One way Australia hoped to hasten reconciliation between its indigenous people and the waves of settlers who now far outnumber them was to provide land rights for the continent's Aborigines.

Yet the efforts so far to apportion those rights fairly have reconciled little between the Aborigines and those farmers, miners and loggers who hold government pastoral leases to work the land.

The debate has become so divisi...

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