Bill
Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment (Jabiru) Bill 2020
passed, as at 2020-09-17. Indigenous Australians portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Indigenous Australians
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2020-05-13
- second reading — 2020-05-13
- second reading — 2020-08-31
- second reading — 2020-08-31
- third reading — 2020-08-31
- introduced — 2020-09-01
- second reading — 2020-09-01
- second reading — 2020-09-03
- second reading — 2020-09-03
- third reading — 2020-09-03
- passed — 2020-09-03
- royal assent — 2020-09-17
Divisions
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2020-05-13.
This bill would allow the Jabiru township land to be transferred to the Mirarr traditional owners.
It would amend the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 to make the Jabiru township lease match other township leases, including by allowing a shorter term and letting the lease be held by the Executive Director of Township Leasing or a community entity.
The bill would also update a reference in the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 so that people can use and develop land subleased from the approved entity holding the new Jabiru lease.
- Allow the Jabiru township lease term to be between 40 and 99 years.
- Remove the rule that the first township lease can only be granted to the Commonwealth.
- Clarify that the Jabiru township lease would not automatically extend existing subleases beyond the head lease term.
- Remove outdated Jabiru-specific leasing provisions from the Land Rights Act.
- Update a cross-reference in the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.
The Mirarr traditional owners, the Executive Director of Township Leasing, community entities, and people with subleases in Jabiru.
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