57-year wait for Aboriginal Land Rights claims

The New South Wales Aboriginal Land Rights Act was created in 1983. A recent review into the Act, commissioned by three Local Aboriginal Land Councils, has found that so far it has been a “substantial failure” with a backlog in claims that would take 57 years to clear.

The Morling Review panel found a lot of the problems with the Act has to do with an overly bureaucratic system that makes processing Aboriginal Land Rights claims unnecessarily difficult and lengthy.Emma Rennie reports.

Speakers:

• Dr Heidi Norman - Senior Lecturer at the University of Technology
• Hon. Trevor Morling - Retired federal judge and chair of the Morling Review
• Sydney