Bill
Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment Bill 2018
passed, as at 2019-03-12. Indigenous Affairs portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Indigenous Affairs
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2017-12-06
- second reading — 2017-12-06
- second reading — 2018-11-26
- second reading — 2018-11-26
- committee — 2018-11-26
- third reading — 2018-11-26
- introduced — 2018-11-28
- second reading — 2019-02-19
- second reading — 2019-02-19
- second reading — 2019-02-19
- third reading — 2019-02-19
- passed — 2019-02-19
- royal assent — 2019-03-12
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2017-12-06.
This bill would add several areas in the Northern Territory to a schedule of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 so they can be granted as Aboriginal land.
It would also require the Kakadu Land to be leased back to the Director of National Parks after the grant.
The areas covered are Kakadu Land, Urapunga Land and Anthony Lagoon Land.
- Adds Kakadu Land to Schedule 1 of the Land Rights Act.
- Adds Urapunga Land to Schedule 1 of the Land Rights Act.
- Adds Anthony Lagoon Land to Schedule 1 of the Land Rights Act.
- Provides for leaseback of Kakadu Land to the Director of National Parks.
Traditional land claimants in the Kakadu region, the town of Urapunga, and the Anthony Lagoon area in the Northern Territory, as well as the Director of National Parks.
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