Australia: Scholar’s Paper Points To Aboriginal Mineral Rights

Australia: Scholar’s Paper Points To Aboriginal Mineral Rights   When Aboriginal activists meet in Canberra at Easter they will have in front of them a paper that suggested to the Howard government that Aboriginal people are likely to test the crown ownership of minerals.   Michael Anderson, convener of the New Way Sovereignty Summits, quotes from an essay by Dr Stephen Davis to a conference of the Samuel Griffith Society (http://samuelgriffith.org.au/) stating that, “If Crown ownership of...

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