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McGregor, Russell Edward. "Answering the native question: the dispossession of the Aborigines of the Fitzroy District, West Kimberley, 1880-1905." Thesis, University of North Queensland, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/268851.
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Vincent, Eve Mary. "Forces of destruction, acts of creation : aboriginality, identity and native title, on the far west coast of South Australia." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/13502.
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Slack, Michael Jon. "Between the desert and the Gulf : evolutionary anthropology and Aboriginal prehistory in the Riversleigh/Lawn Hill region, Northern Australia." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2748.
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Howey, Kirsty. "'Normalising' what? Aboriginal land tenure reform in the Northern Territory of Australia." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/42992.
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This thesis examines recent Aboriginal land tenure reform in the Northern Territory of Australia. The Commonwealth and Northern Territory governments have introduced three reforms since 2006: Township Leases, 5-year Intervention Leases and 40-year Housing Leases. Each of the reforms provides for the grant of a “head-lease” on land owned under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 (Cth) to a government entity, which then has the power to issue sub-leases to Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal persons.
Scholars have tended to focus attention on the first two reforms, the Township Leases and the 5-year Intervention Leases, and the extent to which they have been successful or otherwise in achieving their policy objectives. Scholars have also tended to interpret one policy objective associated with all three reforms – the so-called “normalisation” of Aboriginal communities – as having a static meaning, often criticising it as a return to the Northern Territory’s colonial past.
This thesis takes a different approach, attempting to examine the legal structure of all three reforms as part of wider discourse surrounding Aboriginal land tenure reform in the Northern Territory. I first analyse the legal structure of the reforms as evidenced in legislation and policy documentation, and then qualitatively examine the meaning of the term “normalise” in parliamentary hansard. My analysis reveals that the meaning of the word “normalise” has shifted since the first reform was introduced, and this change has been reflected by a parallel change in the legal structure of the reforms. The first two reforms (Township Leases and 5-year Intervention Leases) exhibit some parallels with the Northern Territory’s colonial property regime. However, the 40-year Housing Leases do not appear to possess the same characteristics and in fact may result in traditional Aboriginal owners of land in the Northern Territory exercising greater legal and economic control over their land.
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Liddle, Lynette Elizabeth. "Traditional obligations to country : landscape governance, land conservation and ethics in Central Australia." Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/151581.
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Herne, Stephen Charles. "A jurisprudence of difference : the denial of full respect in the Australian law of native title." University of Western Australia. Law School, 2009. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2008.0262.
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Cleary, Paul. "Iron ore dreaming : a study of native title negotiations in the Pilbara, Western Australia." Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/150452.
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Doohan, Kim Elizabeth. ""Making things come good" Aborigines and miners at Argyle /." Doctoral thesis, Australia : Macquarie University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/145.
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Thesis (PhD) -- Macquarie University, Division of Environmental and Life Sciences, Department of Human Geography, 2007."November 2006".
Bibliography: p. 352-398.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Barber, Marcus. "Where the clouds stand Australian Aboriginal relationships to water, place, and the marine environment in Blue Mud Bay, Northern Territory /." Click here for electronic access, 2005. http://adt.caul.edu.au/homesearch/get/?mode=advanced&format=summary&nratt=2&combiner0=and&op0=ss&att1=DC.Identifier&combiner1=and&op1=-sw&prevquery=&att0=DC.Title&val0=Where+the+clouds+stand&val1=NBD%3A&submit=Search.
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Fantin, Shaneen Rae. "Housing Aboriginal culture in North-East Arnhem Land /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2003. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe17564.pdf.
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Norman, Karma C. "Grasping Adubad : Badulgal management, tenure, knowledge and harvest within the marine environment of the Torres Strait /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6547.
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Dewar, Mickey. "Strange bedfellows : Europeans and Aborigines in Arnhem land before World War II." Master's thesis, University of New England, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/274469.
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I first arrived in Arnhem Land in November 1980 as a trainee teacher determined to seek adventure having recently finished a BA (Hons) degree in History at Melbourne. I returned in January of the following year to take up a position as teacher to post-primary girls at Milingiinbi Bilingual School.
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Mainville, Robert. "Compensation in cases of infringement to aboriginal and treaty rights." Thesis, McGill University, 1999. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=30317.
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This paper discusses the legal principles which are relevant in determining the appropriate level of compensation for infringements to aboriginal and treaty rights. This issue has been left open by the Supreme Court of Canada in the seminal case of Delgamuukw. The nature of aboriginal and treaty rights as well as the fiduciary relationship and duties of the Crown are briefly described. The basic constitutional context in which these rights evolve is also discussed, including the federal common law of aboriginal rights and the constitutional position of these rights in Canada. Having set the general context, the paper then reviews the legal principles governing the infringement of aboriginal and treaty rights, including the requirement for just compensation. Reviews of the legal principles applicable to compensation in cases of expropriation and of the experience in the United States in regards to compensation in cases of the taking of aboriginal lands are also carried out. Six basic legal principles relevant for determining appropriate compensation in cases of infringement to aboriginal and treaty rights are then suggested, justified and explained. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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Sampson, David. "Strangers in a strange land the 1868 Aborigines and other indigenous performers in mid-Victorian Britain /." Click here for electronic access to document: http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/dspace/handle/2100/314, 2000. http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/dspace/handle/2100/314.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Technology, Sydney, 2000.Sportsmen: Tarpot, Tom Wills, Mullagh, King Cole, Jellico, Peter, Red Cap, Harry Rose, Bullocky, Johnny Cuzens, Dick-a-Dick, Charley Dumas, Jim Crow, Sundown, Mosquito, Tiger and Twopenny. Bibliography: p. 431-485.
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Fuentes, Carlos Iván. "Redefining Canadian Aboriginal title : a critique towards an Inter-American doctrine of indigenous right to land." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=101816.
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Is it possible to redefine Aboriginal title? This study intends to answer this question through the construction of an integral doctrine of aboriginal title based on a detailed analysis of its criticisms. The author uses international law to show a possible way to redefine this part of Canadian law. After a careful review of the most important aspects of aboriginal land in international law, the author chooses the law of the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights as its framework. Using the decisions of this Court he produces an internationalized redefinition of Aboriginal title.
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Donovan, Brian. "The common law basis of Aboriginal entitlements to land in Canada, the law's crooked path." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ62720.pdf.
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Grootjans, John. "Both ways and beyond : in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health worker education." Thesis, View thesis, 1999. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/445.
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During 1987 my essential beliefs about the nature of the world were challenged by a chance event which led to my arrival in Arnhemland. Working with Aboriginal people allowed me to see first hand the failings of Western ideas in Aboriginal education and health. This is how a 12 year collaboration with Aboriginal people began. The aim was to search for answers to the question, 'Why so many ideas that had been successfully used in the Western world, fail to meet the needs of aboriginal people? My experiences prior to 1995 had led me to believe that Both Ways, an education pedagogy developed in teacher education, was the best approach for empowering Aboriginal Health Workers. I believed Both Ways gave Aboriginal Health Workers a means to develop solutions to aboriginal health issues which valued and respected their aboriginal knowledge. I needed to describe and evaluate the practice of both ways with Aboriginal Health workers for the purpose of proving the benefit of this pedagogy for other educators in this field. This thesis describes how I came to think Both Ways was a good idea; how I defined Both ways; and how I put it into practice. It also provides a description of the issues raised in my critique of Both Ways and in my attempts to provide answers to these issues. Several years of collecting data, including records from action research group discussions, participant observation, interviews with peers and students, and formal evaluations left me with many concerns about Both Ways. As educators follow my journey of discovery I hope that they will recognise experiences and insights that they themselves have shared. The descriptions and discussions in this thesis will add significantly to the overall discourse about health worker education. Similarly, the exploration of ideas beyond Both Ways will add significantly to the overall body knowledge about the power relationships involved in teaching in a cross cultural setting
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Mahony, Ben David, and University of Lethbridge Faculty of Arts and Science. ""Disinformation and smear" : the use of state propaganda and mulitary force to suppress aboriginal title at the 1995 Gustafsen Lake standoff." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Arts and Science, 2001, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/189.
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In the summer of 1995, eighteen protesters came into armed conflict with over 400 RCMP officers and soldiers in central British Columbia. The conflict escalated into one of the costliest police operations in Canadian history. Many accounts of Aboriginal aggression provided by the RCMP are not consistent with evidence disclosed at the trial of the protesters. Moreover, the substance of the legal arguments at the heart of the Ts' Peten Defenders' resistance received little attention or serous analysis by state officials, police or the media. The RCMP constructed the Ts' Peten Defenders as terrorists and downplayed the use of state force that included military weaponry, land explosives and police snipers, who received orders to shoot to kill. Serious questions remain about the role of the RCMP, who acted as the enforement arm of state policies designed to constrain the effort to internationalize the Aboriginal title question.iii, 225, [44] leaves : ill. ; 28 cm.
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Moran, Anthony F. "Imagining the Australian nation settler- nationalism and Aboriginality /." Click here for electronic access to document, 1999. http://dtl.unimelb.edu.au/R/U1L2H28HB18MC24L4CL743PII8DUPUQSDYN9NGAGLBXL8YA8BU-00451?func=results-jump-full&set_entry=000013.
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Walsh, Fiona Jane. "To hunt and to hold : Martu Aboriginal people's uses and knowledge of their country, with implications for co-management in Karlamilyi (Rudall River) National Park and the Great Sandy Desert, Western Australia." University of Western Australia. School of Plant Biology, 2009. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2009.0127.
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[Truncated abstract] This ethnoecological study examines land uses by modern Martu Aboriginal people on their country. They occupy very remote settlementsParnngurr, Punmu and Kunawarritjiin the Great and Little Sandy Deserts. In 1990, their country included Crown Lands and Rudall River National Park. The study investigated the proposition that the knowledge and practices of Martu were of direct relevance to ecosystem processes and national park management. This research commenced in the wider Australian research context of the late 1980s early 90s when prevailing questions were about the role of customary harvest within contemporary Aboriginal society (Altman 1987; Devitt 1988) and the sustainability of species-specific harvests by Australian indigenous people (Bomford & Caughley 1996). Separately, there was a national line of enquiry into Aboriginal roles in natural resource and protected area management (Williams & Hunn 1986; Birckhead et al. 1992). The field work underpinning this study was done in 19861988 and quantitative data collected in 1990 whilst the researcher lived on Martu settlements. Ethnographic information was gathered from informal discussions, semi-structured interviews and participant observation on trips undertaken by Martu. A variety of parameters was recorded for each trip in 1990. On trips accompanied by the researcher, details on the plant and animal species collected were quantified. Martu knowledge and observations of Martu behaviour are interpreted in terms of the variety of land uses conducted and transport strategies including vehicle use; the significance of different species collected; socio-economic features of bush food collection; spatio-temporal patterns of foraging; and, the 'management' of species and lands by Martu. The research found that in 1990, hunting and gathering were major activities within the suite of land uses practiced by Martu. At least 40% of trips from the settlements were principally to hunt. More than 43 animal species and 37 plant food species were reported to be collected during the study; additionally, species were gathered for firewood, medicines and timber artefacts. Customary harvesting persisted because of the need for sustenance, particularly when there were low store supplies, as well as other reasons. The weight of bush meats hunted at least equalled and, occasionally, was three times greater than the weights of store meats available to Parnngurr residents. ... Paradoxically, hunting was a subject of significant difference despite it being the principal activity driving Martu expertise and practice. There is potential for comanagement in the National Park but it remains contingent on many factors between both Martu and DEC as well as external to them. The dissertation suggests practical strategies to enhance co-management.
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Ford, Payi-Linda. "Narratives and landscapes their capacity to serve indigenous knowledge interests /." Click here for electronic access to thesis: http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au/adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20070614.105953, 2005. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au/adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20070614.105953.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Deakin University, Victoria, 2005.Submitted to the School of Education of the Faculty of Education, Deakin University. Degree conferred 2006. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 211-225)
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Mwebaza, Rose. "The right to public participation in environmental decision making a comparative study of the legal regimes for the participation of indigneous [sic] people in the conservation and management of protected areas in Australia and Uganda /." Phd thesis, Australia : Macquarie University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/22980.
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"August 2006"Thesis (PhD) -- Macquarie University, Division of Law, 2007.
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Abstract -- Candidate's certification -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms -- Chapter one -- Chapter two: Linking public participation to environmental decision making and natural resources management -- Chapter three: The right to public participation -- Chapter four: Implementing the right to public participation in environmental decision making : the participation of indigenous peoples in the conservation and management of protected areas -- Chapter five: The legal and policy regime for the participation of indigenous peoples in the conservation and management of protected areas in Australia -- Chapter six: The legal and policy regime for the participation of indigenous peoples in the conservation and management of protected areas in Uganda -- Chapter seven: Implementing public participation in environmental decision making in Australia and Uganda : a comparative analysis -- Chapter eight: The right to public participation in enviromental decision making and natural resources management : summary and conclusions -- Bibliography.
In recognition of the importance of public participation as a basis for good governance and democracy, Mr Kofi Annan, Secretary General to the United Nations, has noted that: "Good governance demands the consent and participation of the governed and the full participation and lasting involvement of all citizens in the future of their nation. The will of the people must be the basis of governmental authority. That is the foundation of democracy. That is the foundation of good governance Good governance will give every citizen, young or old, man or woman, a real and lasting stake in the future of his or her society". The above quotation encapsulates the essence of what this thesis has set out to do; to examine the concept of public participation and its application in environmental governance within the context of the participation of indigenous peoples in the conservation and management of protected areas in Australia and Uganda. The concept of public participation is of such intrinsic importance that it has emerged as one of the fundamental principles underpinning environmental governance and therefore forms the basis for this study. -- Environmental governance, as a concept that captures the ideal of public participation, is basically about decisions and the manner in which they are made. It is about who has 'a seat at the table' during deliberations and how the interests of affected communities and ecosystems are represented. It is also about how decision makers are held responsible for the integrity of the process and for the results of their decisions. It relates to business people, property owners, farmers and consumers. Environmental governance is also about the management of actions relating to the environment and sustainable development. It includes individual choices and actions like participating in public hearings or joining local watchdog groups or, as consumers, choosing to purchase environmentally friendly products. -- The basic principles behind good governance and good environmental decision making have been accepted for more than a decade. The 178 nations that attended the Rio Summit in 1992 all endorsed these nvironmental governance principles when they signed the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development (Rio Declaration) - a charter of 27 principles meant to guide the world community towards sustainable development. The international community re-emphasised the importance of these principles at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002. -- The right to public participation in nvironmental decision making and natural resources management is one of the 27 principles endorsed by the nations of the world and is embodied in the provisions of Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration.
Environmental decisions occur in many contexts. They range from personal choices like whether to walk or drive to work, how much firewood to burn, or whether to have another child. They encompass the business decisions that communities or corporations make about where to locate their facilities, how much to emphasise eco-friendly product design and how much land to preserve. They include national laws enacted to conserve the environment, to regulate pollution, manage public land or regulate trade. They take into account international commitments made to regulate trade in endangered species or limit acid rain or C02 emissions. -- Environmental decisions also involve a wide range of actors: individuals; local, state and national governments; community and tribal authorities such as indigenous peoples; civic organisations; interested groups; labour unions; national and transactional corporations; scientists; and international bodies such as the United Nations, the European Union, and the World Trade Organisation. -- Each of the actors have different interests, different levels of authority and different information, making their actions complex and frequently putting their decisions at odds with each other and with ecological processes that sustain the natural systems we depend on. -- Accordingly, this thesis aims to examine participation in environmental decision making in a way that demonstrates these complexities and interdependencies. It will explore the theoretical and conceptual basis for public participation and how it is incorporated into international and domestic environmental and natural resources law and policy. -- It will examine public participation in the context of the legal and policy framework for the conservation and management of protected areas and will use case studies involving the participation of indigeneous peoples in Australia and Uganda to provide the basis for a comparative analysis. -- The thesis will also faces on a comparative analysis of the effectiveness and meaningfulness of the process for public participation in environmental decision making in Australia and Uganda. There is extensive literature on the purposes to which participation may be put; the stages in the project cycle at which it should be employed; the level and power with regard to the decision making process which should be afforded to the participants; the methods which may be appropriate under the different circumstances, as well as detailed descriptions of methods; approaches and forms or typologies of public participation; and the benefits and problems of such participation.
However, there is not much significant literature that examines and analyses the meaningfulness and effectiveness of the contextual processes of such participation. This is despite the widespread belief in the importance and value of public participation, particularly by local and indigenous communities, even in the face of disillusionment caused by deceit, manipulation and tokenism. Accordingly, the thesis will use case studies to demonstrate the meaningfulness and effectiveness or otherwise of public participation in environmental decision making in protected area management. -- Increasingly, the terminology of sustainable development is more appropriate to describe contemporary policy objectives in this area, with an emphasis on promoting local livelihood and poverty alleviation within the constraints of ecosystem management. However, the domestic legal frameworks, and institutional development, in Australia and Uganda tend to reflect earlier concepts of environmental and natural resources management (referred to as environmental management in this thesis). There are some significant differences between a North (developed) nation and a South (developing) nation, in terms of the emphasis on economic objectives, political stability, resources and legal and administrative capacity. The thesis intends to explore these differences for the comparative analysis and to draw on them to highlight the complexities and interdependencies of public participation by indigenous peoples in environmental decision making, natural resources and protected area management.
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Robinson, Scott. "Aboriginal Embassy, 1972." Master's thesis, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/110278.
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The Aboriginal Embassy of 1972 is discussed in
the thesis as a climax to changes in Aboriginal political
consciousness and government policy over the decade which
preceded its nine months of protest activity. The adoption of
creative, non-violent methods of protest by the Embassy is
detailed in contrast with other options considered during the
period.
Although the question of the appropriate means
of protest, and the efficacy of protest action in a democracy are
the essential questions addressed by the thesis, an analysis of the
ideology of land rights is a secondary area of investigation. The
demand for land rights is viewed here as a relatively non-specific,
yet powerful, set of ideas which assumed an antithetical position
to the government's policy of assimilation.
Despite failure to achieve many of its aims, the
Embassy is viewed as successful in having placed the land rights
issue on the agenda of the major Australian political parties. The
Embassy, it is concluded, is an example of the successful use of
symbolic protest, and the relative accomplishment of an
indigenous minority in attracting the attention of, and demanding
redress from, the dominant culture.
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Monaghan, James. "'Our way': social space and the geography of land allocation practice on the southern gulf lowlands of Cape York Peninsula." Thesis, 2005. https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/1284/13/JCU_1284_Monaghan_2005_thesis.pdf.
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This thesis reviews the geography of land allocation practice in Pormpuraaw and Kowanyama. The two communities are adjacent to each other on the southern Gulf Lowlands of Cape York Peninsula and their Aboriginal residents share many ties of kinship, though since their establishment in the earlier years of the 20th century they have had differing experiences of church mission and then State administration of their affairs. As with other rural Aboriginal communities in Queensland, their ‘Deed of Grant in Trust’ or DOGIT title to community lands was transferred to locally elected Community councils in 1987. This was followed in the 1990s by the establishment of homelands or outstations by kin groups and their families in their traditional homeland country. A number of historically contingent as well as traditional protocols appear to have been used in the selection of these homeland sites.
Community life is complex and the rationale that underlies decision-making on homeland allocation and land use issues is often difficult to elucidate in community land planning as decision-making can encapsulate criteria that are taken for granted and thus not referred to when people explain either their actions or aspirations. Bourdieu’s concept of ‘habitus’ (1977, 1984) is used as a conceptual framework in this thesis to explore what I propose are the implicit or taken for granted and the explicit or declared properties of landscapes in the southern Gulf Lowlands in order to explain the geography of land allocation practice that prevails there in the early 21st century.
Specifically, this thesis treats the historical and geographical interactions between the DOGIT tenure and the Aboriginal landscape, and the seasonal proximity of traditional country to the community township as core properties of implicit or unstated space. Explicit space is identified by the landmarks, places and personal geographies that people refer to when describing personal connections to traditional country or when reviewing community land management issues. My thesis is that at the convergence of these geographies there is a praxis which explains a large part of the diversity in land allocation practice on the southern Gulf Lowlands today.
In order to develop and confirm my thesis I apply concepts of ‘social space’ developed by Bourdieu (1977, 1984), Casey (1993, 2001), Lefebvre (1991) and Soja (1996) and their view that geographical space is not just a passive container of social relations but is a generative medium where social practice is actively reproduced. To this end, this thesis develops a series of cartographic models which use kinship models of social organisation and ethno-archaeological models of the spatial organisation of land use to project the properties of social space onto the physical spaces of the townscapes and landscapes of the southern Gulf Lowlands. The topology of social space is reproduced at three levels of emplacement in patterns of household residency in the townscape; in land use and homeland affiliation in the landscape, and in personal space and the daily life of personal relationships and of work and recreation. The relative congruence or disjuncture between these modeled spaces provide direct insights into processes that underlie the geography of land allocation practice in Kowanyama and Pormpuraaw.
Differences in land allocation practice between Kowanyama and Pormpuraaw, which are identified in both the implicit and explicit properties of social space in each community, are complemented by a marked congruity between their respective mapped landscapes and townscapes. Local variations in practice are also identified in implicit space within each community, in landscape units that have their latency in either the seasonal properties of the Aboriginal landscape, the coincident mainstream DOGIT tenure or their proximity to the township.
Explicit space is filled with a comprehensive knowledge of the environmental properties of the southern Gulf Lowlands that is referenced to geography of European and Aboriginal places and landmarks in the region. People used differing kinds of landmark knowledge, depending on their clan or tribe affiliation and their age or their life experiences, to describe their homeland country as well as the wider region. Everybody has their own personal suite of person- place – social space relationships that define their homeland, tribe or community affiliation. As a result of generational differences in landscape knowledge between people, there may be a variety of person-place-space topologies in any homeland group but they all refer to a common geographical space and shared identity. The social spaces which these topologies refer to are stable over time and present day homeland spaces correspond with those clan estates and tribal domains mapped by anthropologists in the 20th century. The underlying geometry of traditional country is immutable, as it is central to indigenous perceptions of social space in the southern Gulf Lowlands. It is only the suite of places or landmarks that people use to map themselves onto the landscape that changes over time. This geography is part of a continuous process of innovation and re-creation in southern Gulf Lowlands society. It is also the core spatial praxis that links implicit space and explicit space and reconciles local and introduced tenures in local land allocation practice.
The primary motive for the maintenance of person-place-space relationships is the affirmation of Aboriginal identity. Social space is both egocentric and sociocentric. Any person may possess different assemblages of person-place-space relationships at homeland, tribal, community and regional scales of social aggregation. Hence, in principle each person may have their own unique ‘private geography’ that enhances individuation and personal as well as social identity across all geographical scales of social space. This spatial praxis is part of a wide repertoire of strategies that is used by Aboriginal people to cope with mainstream Australia and the attendant roles that are occasionally placed on them as objects of academic research or policy-making or as service recipients. It appears, in the early years of the 21st century, that the geographies which were created by Aboriginal people as a result of 20th century colonisation of western Cape York Peninsula are very localised and specialised adaptations to local historical and geographical circumstances, and are unlikely to ever change again: if so, then this diversity and immutability have considerable implications for the future development of land policy in the region. This thesis concludes with a consideration of the unique roles that geography and cartography have in socially inclusive regional and community scale Aboriginal land planning in North Australia.
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Monaghan, James. "'Our way' : social space and the geography of land allocation practice on the southern gulf lowlands of Cape York Peninsula /." 2005. http://eprints.jcu.edu.au/1284.
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Barker, Cynthia Diane. "Claiming the future : anthropology's involvement in aboriginal land rights." Thesis, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/147135.
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Watson, Irene (Irene Margaret). "Raw law : the coming of the Muldarbi and the path to its demise." 1999. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phw3384.pdf.
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Bibliography: p. 367-378. "This thesis is about the origins and original intentions of law; that which I call raw law. Law emanates from Kaldowinyeri, that is the beginning of time itself. Law first took form in song. In this thesis I argue that the law is naked like the land and its peoples, and is distinguished from that known law by the colonists, which is a layered system of rules and regulations, an imposing one which buries the essence and nature of law."
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Watson, Irene (Irene Margaret). "Raw law : the coming of the Muldarbi and the path to its demise." Thesis, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/21610.
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"This thesis is about the origins and original intentions of law; that which I call raw law. Law emanates from Kaldowinyeri, that is the beginning of time itself. Law first took form in song. In this thesis I argue that the law is naked like the land and its peoples, and is distinguished from that known law by the colonists, which is a layered system of rules and regulations, an imposing one which buries the essence and nature of law."
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Corbett, Lee School of Sociology & Anthropology UNSW. "Native title & constitutionalism: constructing the future of indigenous citizenship in Australia." 2007. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/40710.
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This thesis argues that native title rights are fundamental to Indigenous citizenship in Australia. It does this by developing a normative conception of citizenship in connection with a model of constitutionalism. Here, citizenship is more than a legal status. It refers to the norms of individual rights coupled with democratic responsibility that are attached to the person in a liberal-democracy. Constitutionalism provides the framework for understanding the manner in which Australian society realizes these norms. This thesis focuses on a society attempting to grapple with issues of postcolonialism. A fundamental question faced in these societies is the legitimacy of group rights based in pre-colonization norms. This thesis argues that these rights can be legitimized when constitutionalism is understood as originating in the deliberations connecting civil society with the state; which deliberations reconcile individual rights with group rights in such a way as to resolve the issue of their competing claims to legitimacy. Civil society is the social space in which politico-legal norms collide with action. The argument constructed here is that native title is built on norms that have the potential (it is a counterfactual argument) to contribute to a postcolonial civil society. This is one in which colonizer and colonized coordinate their action in a mutual search for acceptable solutions to the question 'how do we live together?'. The optimistic analysis is tempered by a consideration of the development of native title law. The jurisprudence of the High Court after the Wik's Case has undermined the potential of native title to play a transformative role. It has undermined Indigenous Australians' place in civil society, and their status as equal individuals and responsible citizens. In seeking to explain this, the thesis turns from jurisprudence to political sociology, and argues that an alternative model of constitutionalism and civil society has supplanted the postcolonial; viz., the neoliberal.
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Scambary, Benedict. "My country, mine country : indigenous people, mining and development contestation in remote Australia." Phd thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/149611.
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Glaskin, Katie. "Claiming country : a case study of historical legacy and transition in the native title context." Phd thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/146023.
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Trebeck, Katherine. "Democratisation through corporate social responsibility? : the case of miners and indigenous Australians." Phd thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/151703.
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Gilfillan, Anna. "Institutional changes and challenges associated with Australia's Indigenous Protected Area Program." Thesis, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/147915.
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Levitus, Robert Ian. "Sacredness and consultation : an interpretation of the Coronation Hill dispute." Phd thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/148669.
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Connolly, Anthony J. "Conceptual incommensurability and the judicial understanding of indigenous action." Phd thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/150950.
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Wall, Deborah R. "Development, governance and Indigenous people : foregrounding the LNG precinct case in the Kimberley." Thesis, 2015. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/uws:33425.
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After four and a half years evaluating the viability of the establishment of the Browse LNG Precinct onshore at James Price Point in the Kimberley, Woodside and its Joint Venture Partners decided to abandon the project in April 2013. How Indigenous people in the Kimberley made their voices manifest in resource development discussions through their own internal governance system and through their interactions with the institutions of Government and transnational companies is the subject of my thesis. The Browse LNG Precinct proposal was contentious and caused deep divisions within family members, friends and employers in Broome. It became the site of a struggle for recognition of the many voices representing the competing interests of economic development, Aboriginal cultural heritage protection, and environmental conservation. My particular focus is the notion of development by Indigenous people and by the Western Australian government particularly when Traditional Law intersects with Australian mainstream law over land held in common. I examine how notions of development and related values were manifested in practice at mining sites that overlapped with Indigenous sacred sites at Noonkanbah, Argyle and James Price Point. I have found that essentially, the Indigenous people’s voices are represented through the recognition space of state institutional apparatus. The design and operation of legislative acts enabled a system of control over how Aboriginal interests are to be governed within the framework of Australia’s governance of mineral and natural resources. Co-existence between Aboriginal and Western cosmology constitutes dynamic processes and the interplay for mutual recognition. In practice, the dominant system of control filters the Indigenous voice by its translation within the institutional practices of the Australian state and legal system.
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"Strangers in a Strange Land: The 1868 Aborigines and other Indigenous Performers in Mid-Victorian Britain." University of Technology, Sydney. Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2100/314.
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Enshrined by cricket history, the 1868 Aboriginal cricket tour of England has become popularly established as a uniquely benign public transaction in the history of contact between Aborigines, pastoralist settlers and British colonialism. Embraced by two Australian Prime Ministers and celebrated by a commemorative Aboriginal tour, film documentaries, museum displays, poetry, creative fiction, sporting histories, special edition prints and a national advertising campaign for the centenary of Australian federation, the zeal for commemoration has overwhelmed critical enquiry. Incorporating some critical interpretations of the tour which are current in Aboriginal discourse, this re-examination subjects the tour to approaches commonly applied to other aspects of Aboriginal history and relations between colonialism and indigenous peoples. Although it is misleadingly understood simply as a cricket tour, the primitivist displays of Aboriginal weaponry during the 1868 Aboriginal tour of Britain were more appealing to spectators than their cricketing displays. Viewed solely within the prism of sport or against policies leading to extermination, dispersal and segregation of Aborigines, there is little basis for comparative analysis of the tour. But when it is considered in the context of displays of race and commodified exhibitions of primitive peoples and cultures, particularly those taken from peripheries to the centre of empire, it is no longer unique or inexplicable either as a form of cultural display, a set of inter-racial relations, or a complex of indigenous problems and opportunities. This study re-examines the tour as a part of European racial ideology and established practices of bringing exotic races to Britain for sporting, scientific and popular forms of display. It considers the options and actions of the Aboriginal performers in the light of power relations between colonial settlers and dispossessed indigenous peoples. Their lives are examined as a specific form of indentured labour subjected to time discipline, racial expectations of white audiences and managerial control by enterpreneuurs seeking to profit from the novelty of Aborigines in Britain. Comparative studies of Maori and Native American performers taken to Britain in the mid¬Victorian era flesh out sparse documentation of the Aboriginal experience in an alien environment. Elements of James Scott's methodology of hidden and public transcripts are utilised to identify the sources of concealed tensions and discontents. A detailed study of the two best known 1868 tourists, Dick-a-Dick and Johnny Mullagh, considers two strategies by which Aborigines confronted by a situation of acute disadvantage used their developed performance skills and knowledge of European racial preconceptions in partially successful attempts to satisfy their emotional and material needs and further Aboriginal goals. Finally, the disjunctions between commemoration and critical history are resolved by suggesting that the 1868 tour and its performers deserve to be commemorated as pioneers in the practice of recontextualisng and popularising Aboriginal culture in the western metropolis.
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Slotte, Ingrid. "We are family, we are one: an aboriginal Christian movement in Arnhem Land, Australia." Phd thesis, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/145968.
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Wensing, Edward George. "Land Justice for Indigenous Australians: How can two systems of land ownership, use and tenure coexist with mutual respect based on parity and justice?" Phd thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/157200.
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Prior to Mabo (No. 2) the legal imaginary of terra nullius
enabled the creation of a property system as if the pre-existing
land rights and interests of the Aboriginal peoples simply did
not exist. Ever since the High Court of Australia’s landmark
decision in Mabo v State of Queensland (No. 2) (1992) and the
Australian Parliament’s enactment of the Native Title Act 1993
(Cth) there are two legally recognised and distinct systems of
land ownership, use and tenure operating in Australia: one older
(over 60,000 years), the other much younger (only 230 years).
While Mabo (No. 2) dismissed the convenient legal fiction of
terra nullius as the basis for establishing Australia’s
sovereignty, the decision set the ground rules for the legal
recognition of the pre-existing land rights of the Aboriginal
peoples of Australia, which the High Court termed native title
rights and interests. Every positive determination of native
title is therefore, an affirmation of Aboriginal law and custom
and their sovereignty that was present prior to 1788. But Mabo
(No. 2) gives rise to several ‘troubling disjuncts’,
including the High Court’s ambivalence about fracturing the
‘skeletal principles’ of Australia’s sovereignty and the
outright denial of Indigenous peoples’ sovereignty, the
Crown’s monopoly power to extinguish native title rights and
interests, and their inalienability.
The Aboriginal peoples of Australia continue to assert they never
ceded their sovereignty, their land was stolen from them without
their consent, extinguishment is alien to their law and custom.
As such, the Settler state’s assertion of ownership and
sovereignty over land has no legitimacy under their law and
custom. Aboriginal peoples’ persistent desire is that the two
systems of law and custom relating to land be accorded an equal
and non-discriminatory status. This is not mere historical or
symbolic posturing. They want to use their property rights to
engage in the economy on their terms and at their choosing.
Their position is supported by various international human rights
instruments.
This PhD thesis explores the possibilities of supplanting the
prevailing orthodoxy with a coherent policy and praxis framework
for a mutually respectful coexistence between two culturally
distinct forms of land ownership, use and tenure based on parity,
mutual respect, reciprocity and justice.
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Nemoto, Akihiko. "Changes in aboriginal property rights : a chronological account of land use practices in the Lil’Wat Nation." Thesis, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/8566.
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This study deals with the changing dynamics of land use systems in an aboriginal
community of British Columbia, namely the Lil'wat Nation, by employing the concept of
property as an analytical tool. The focus on the concept of property clarifies the role played by
the authority and institutions as regulators and decision-making factors in land use management.
The description of the relationship between property and various transitions in aboriginal life
constitutes the main contribution of this research project.
The methodology used in this descriptive study is a combination of the participantobserver
method and archival data collection. Issues around authority are discussed in terms of
the power relationship between Canada and the Lil'wat Nation. Several historical events explain
the way in which political and economic imperatives have shaped the relationship between the
Lil'wat Nation and Canada, as well as the internal power relationship within the aboriginal
community.
It is found that the rapid and important changes in the decision-making situation (i.e.,
context of institution change) have significantly affected the land use projects on reserve
grounds. Those changes include: high rate of population growth, extension of a money economy
through forestry and agricultural activities, and exercise of various outside interests on reserve
lands. Also, it is found that a number of governmental initiatives created and perpetuated a state
of dependency and dissension among the aboriginal community.
Since land use practices cannot be viewed in isolation, this study emphasizes the
importance of political reform and sharing of authority. Also, some strategies for Lil'wat's selfdetermination
are identified and the urgency to develop community-based economic projects is
stressed.
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Law, Wallace Boone. "Chipping away in the past : stone artefact reduction and Holocene systems of land use in arid Central Australia." Master's thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/151219.
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Dearling, Charles. "From Mumbulla : aboriginal exploitation of the Bega Valley in recent prehistory." Master's thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/151136.
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Venkataya, Beatrice. "Working in partnership : exploring the medicinal and therapeutic potential of traditional bush products made by the Yirralka Miyalk (Women’s) Rangers (YMR) of Laynhapuy Homelands, Australia." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:49845.
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Collaborative community-university partnerships are an ethical approach to conduct research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, to achieve outcomes relevant to these communities. In 2016, a research project was conducted in collaboration with, and directed by, the Yirralka Miyalk (Women’s) Rangers (YMR) of Laynhapuy Homelands, Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia and the National Institute of Complementary Medicine (NICM) at Western Sydney University. As a continuation of this collaboration, the research documented in this thesis investigates the bush products manufactured by YMR and the related traditional medicinal plants used to produce them- Eucalyptus tetrodonta, Melaleuca dealbata and Litsea glutinosa through a mixed method research strategy. Apart of the participatory action research and community-university partnerships framework adopted for this research, semi-structured interviews and focus groups were conducted with YMR members and Laynhapuy staff to identify focus areas for further study. The medicinal and therapeutic value of E. tetrodonta, M. dealbata and L. glutinosa were identified as areas of interest and guided the subsequent research reported in this thesis. To assess the medicinal and therapeutic value of the three species, qualitative, semi-quantitative and quantitative methods were employed. Through the observations made in this thesis, and through continued collaboration following participatory action research (PAR) frameworks and mixed method research, it is hoped that the scientific evidence gained will continue to support the YMR members and their bush products.
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Creighton, Sophie. "The Yolngu way : an ethnographic account of recent transformations in indigenous education at Yirrkala, Northeast Arnhem Land." Phd thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/148435.
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Dibden, Julie Ann. "Drawing in the land : rock-art in the upper Nepean, Sydney basin, New South Wales : Vol.1 & 2." Phd thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/150760.
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The Upper Nepean River catchment in the Sydney Basin has a rich repertoire of visual imagery - rock-art, and a variety of other types of marks on stone. This thesis examines the diversity and spatial distribution across the land of these rock markings and change over time. The theoretical focus is on materiality, practice and performance. In previous research conducted in the Sydney Basin, rock-art located in shelters has been considered, at least implicitly, to be functionally equivalent across both space and time. The research in this thesis, by comparison, has been developed to explore both synchronic and diachronic variability in sheltered rock-art and to give consideration to the occupational and contextual diversity this represents. The rock-art corpus is analysed in accordance with its material diversity in order to explore the qualitatively different forms of behavioural expression that this variation may embody. A fundamental distinction is made between graphically structured, imposed form on the one hand, and gestural marks on the other. The material relationship between the rock-art and the rock on and within which it is set, is also examined. The different data sets are explored dialectically and in accordance with their geographic and environmental location in order to gain an appreciation of the experience and engagement between Aboriginal people and the land in this part of the Sydney Basin. The analysis employs both quantitative and explicitly narrative approaches to examine the spatial and temporal dimensions of occupation. While this research has been conducted without the support of any direct dating or archaeological context, the methodology has, nevertheless allowed for the discrimination of temporal diversity in spatial patterns, and concomitantly, the manner in which the land has been occupied and created as landscape, over time. In order to achieve this, it has been crucial to analyse the rock markings not only in respect of their behaviour correlates, but also their material locations within geographic, environmental and micro-topographic space. The analysis of the Upper Nepean rock-art reveals a pattern of diachronic change in which the marking of the land with imagery became increasingly diverse in a number of formal and material ways, and geographically and environmentally common and widespread. The results suggests that regional bodies of rock-art are likely to have been produced in accordance with a diversity of motivations and functional purposes and that significant temporal change in the impetus to mark the land, and the choice of how and where to do so, can occur over relatively short time frames. It is argued that the practice of marking the land in the Upper Nepean was a dynamic dialectic, both constitutive and transformative, of being and place. Over time, people drew the land into an object world which became, with ever increasing inscription and embellishment, a marked and painted landscape, both productive of and reflecting, a complex history.
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May, Sally. "Karrikadjurren : creating community with an art centre in Indigenous Australia." Phd thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/151351.
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Louw, Andre Nathan. "The myth of the guiltless society. A socio-ethical appraisal of the experience of the aborigines in Australia since colonisation. Toward a theology of liberation for Australia." Diss., 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/889.
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This study is a focus on a small minority group within Australian society.
This study attempts to explore and expose the inherent injustices experienced by this Aboriginal group since colonization. Its major focus is the loss of their land and their human rights and dignity subsequent to this invasion/ colonization. It also attempts, subsequent to the High Court decision in favour of Aboriginal land ownership, to also theologically support that stance. This study exposes the heretical nature of the traditional theology and religious practices of the dominant white population. It also tries to show the correlation with the experience of the Maori people in New Zealand and how they lost their land to the British Monarch.
It then attempts some directives for reconciliation between these peoples and what could be done to restore the damage done since 1788.Theology
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Lally, Elaine. "Yolngu marriage : an empirical analysis." Master's thesis, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/112479.
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The background to this thesis was in work undertaken by the author in
1982/83 in collaboration with Dr. Paul Jorion, then of the Department of
Social Anthropology at Cambridge University. This work entailed the
development of techniques for the computer analysis of genealogies,
looking specifically for genealogical relationships between spouses, and so
a detailed analysis of an extensive body of genealogical data provided a
logical topic for thesis research.
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Klaver, Jan Maria. "Late holocene occupation of the Central Murrumbidgee Riverine Plain." Phd thesis, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/109956.
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The archaeological record of southeastern Australia, from the Pleistocene to the mid-tolate
Holocene, is seen to reflect a transition from dispersed Aboriginal land use patterns to
those of increasing) y populous, sedentary and socioeconomically complex hunter
gatherers. This unilinear development model is nevertheless based on broad trends in
rates of site formation and intensity of use, limited dating and functional analysis of
spatially patterned evidence, and scarce data for the comparative complexities of the
Pleistocene cultural environment. The present study reviews assumptions and evidence
underlying this model, and contributes the results of a new large scale sample survey, and
excavation program, in the Central Murrumbidgee Riverine Plain. The regional study
enables a reformulation of the Holocene land use model, especially for riverine plains
environments, and identifies avenues for further investigation.
A major weakness underlying the population-sedentism model is the inadequate
understanding of the definition, formation processes, functions and dating of the 'mound'
sites which are common in some southeastern Australian environments. These were
therefore a special focus of the research. The vast majority of such sites in the study
region were formed as a result of the operation of earth ovens. Multiple dates from
individual oven mounds demonstrated the very long periods over which they were
revisited and used. Such use highlights the caution required in interpreting their surficial
groupings, and relationship to proximate artefact scatters and other sites, as
contemporaneous settlement patterns. Their formation, even in large groupings, is
argued to be well within the capability of a population of modest densities within a regime
of seasonal or semi-sedentary usage.
The unilinear development model is also found to inadequately appreciate the degree to
which Aboriginal peoples reorganised their regional land use pattern at different times
within the Holocene. The major Pleistocene-Holocene environmental transition has been
a moment of expected cultural change, whilst intra-Holocene change has been more
readily interpreted as a result of a socioeconomic transition. Nevertheless, Holocene
environments underwent punctuated localised change. These are important parameters in
explaining the archaeological record. Such change was managed through complex and
flexible subsistence patterns, and elaborate technology and socioeconomic organisation,
which characterised the hunter gatherer societies of Aboriginal Australia from the mid
Holocene to the 19th century. It is argued, for the Central Murrumbidgee Riverine Plain,
that this process did not necessarily involve dramatic population increases, demographic
pressures, or a substantial adoption of the strictures of sedentism.
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Markham, Amanda. "Competing interests : co-management, Aborigines and national parks in Australia's Northern Territory." Phd thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/110347.
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Since the 1970s, the joint management of national parks and other protected areas has been seen as an ideal political solution to recognising Aboriginal land rights in the Northern Territory (NT) whilst simultaneously allowing continued public access to its protected areas. Despite widespread public acceptance of the notion of joint management, an examination of the literature reveals that not only is joint management largely unproblematised, the interests and understandings about joint management held by government conservation agencies, their staff and higher levels of government is little understood. Following a determination handed down in a landmark native title case, Western Australia v. Ward in 2002, thirty-three of the NT's national parks and reserves in the Northern Territory became subject to simultaneous, widespread joint management arrangements. Consequently, this thesis focusses upon how government conservation agencies understand and implement joint management on-the-ground. As the NT's government-run conservation agency, the Parks and Wildlife Service (PWS) was given primary operational responsibility for implementing these new joint management agreements, an examination of the interests, organisational culture, structures and practices of the PWS, and their dialectic with the interests of other groups involved in these arrangements is the subject of this thesis. Thus, the central question posed in this study is: What does joint management mean to conservation agencies and their staff in NT? I argue that conservation agencies can be viewed as complex adaptive systems which operate in dialectic with other similar complex adaptive systems, such as land councils or Aboriginal cultures. Crucial to this approach is the identification of elements within organisations that are resilient, self-organising, dynamic and non-linear. To do this, I examine several normative cultural constructs which underlie the conceptualisation and creation of conservation agencies -national parks, conservation, and conservation agencies-arguing that these are important in understanding how the culture, structure and practices of the PWS function as a complex adaptive system, and in tum, act to influence the implementation of joint management on the ground. Within PWS's organisation the agency's strong sense of autonomy, its legislatively-derived and internally stable understanding about the agency's role and functions, its fixed notions about natural values and its inherent 'rangercentrism' comprise elements which influence and shape the nature of joint management undertaken by the agency. These elements are reproduced not only across multiple scales within the agency, but also in interactions with other groups involved in joint management.