Senator Price said while well-meaning, laws needed to change to encourage private homeownership on native title land as well as more business creation, including Aboriginal owned mines.
Already a subscriber?Opposition spokeswoman on Indigenous affairs Jacinta Nampijinpa Price says 30 years of native title has left Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people “land rich, but dirt poor”, and the system needs to be overhauled.during last year’s referendum for a Voice to parliament – said while well-meaning, laws needed to change to encourage private home ownership on native title land, as well as more business creation, including Aboriginal-owned mines.
Native title groups hosting Australia’s iron ore industry are holding more than $1 billion of net assets in trusts, but after more than three decades of native title, there is little to show for the majority of Indigenous Australians.found 45 per cent of Australia’s land mass is now covered by a native title determination, and the regime has generated billions of dollars in income for a few groups, particularly those in the nation’s north-west.
“When you own something you’ll want to keep it maintained, you’ll want to look after it, you’ve got that for life, and you can pass it down to your kids. There isn’t that sort of thing in remote communities. Again, there’s that double standard at play.” “They have their own mining company well established. Their families, their groups, their clans have that source of income coming through, and the local people are employed in jobs.
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