Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of tables
- Notes on contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Aboriginal and Islander Languages
- 1 Overview of indigenous languages of Australia
- 2 Language in Aboriginal Australia: social dialects in a geographic idiom
- 3 Aboriginal English – an overview
- 4 Communicative strategies in Aboriginal English
- 5 Language and communication in Aboriginal land claim hearings
- 6 Warlpiri in the 80s: an overview of research into language variation and child language
- 7 A sketch of Kalaw Kawaw Ya
- 8 Understanding language shift: a step towards language maintenance
- Part II Pidgins and creoles
- Part III Transplanted languages other than English
- Part IV Varieties of Australian English
- Part V Public policy and social issues
- References
- Index
5 - Language and communication in Aboriginal land claim hearings
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 July 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of tables
- Notes on contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Aboriginal and Islander Languages
- 1 Overview of indigenous languages of Australia
- 2 Language in Aboriginal Australia: social dialects in a geographic idiom
- 3 Aboriginal English – an overview
- 4 Communicative strategies in Aboriginal English
- 5 Language and communication in Aboriginal land claim hearings
- 6 Warlpiri in the 80s: an overview of research into language variation and child language
- 7 A sketch of Kalaw Kawaw Ya
- 8 Understanding language shift: a step towards language maintenance
- Part II Pidgins and creoles
- Part III Transplanted languages other than English
- Part IV Varieties of Australian English
- Part V Public policy and social issues
- References
- Index
Summary
Introduction
The Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act of 1976 is intended to give Aboriginals in the Northern Territory legal title to their traditional lands, where these lands are unalienated from the Crown or where all interests in the lands are held by or on behalf of Aboriginals. When an area of land is being claimed, an Aboriginal Land Council prepares a claim on behalf of the traditional owners, often using contract researchers, in which it tries to ascertain the names and relationships of all the traditional owners, the location of sites on their land, and the nature of their affiliations (spiritual and economic) to the land. This evidence is presented before an Aboriginal Land Commissioner, who is a judge of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, in a quasi-legal hearing with lawyers representing the claimants and other parties with interests in the same lands, for example, mining and pastoral companies, the Northern Territory government, local councils. The proceedings are tape-recorded and an official transcript produced by the Commonwealth Reporting Service. The Aboriginal Land Commissioner issues his findings and recommendations in a published report to the Federal Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, who may then make a grant of the land to an Aboriginal Land Trust established to hold title to the land for the benefit of its traditional owners (see Maddock 1983 and Neate 1989 for a general discussion of the Land Rights Legislation).
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- Language in Australia , pp. 94 - 103Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1991
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