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'A Mere Impertinence...' : An Early History of Aboriginal Land Rights from a Lawyer's Perspective - Ross Howie

'A Mere Impertinence...'

An Early History of Aboriginal Land Rights from a Lawyer's Perspective

By: Ross Howie

Paperback | 1 August 2025

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In November 1972 Gough Whitlam promised land rights to Aborigines in the Northern Territory. The legislation he introduced was substantially enacted by the Fraser Government in 1976. For 24 years between 1979 and 2002 Ross Howie SC acted for Aboriginal claimants in twenty two traditional land claims and seven early native title cases. In requiring proof of spiritual affiliation, responsibility and traditional attachment to land the cases revealed significant accounts of cultural understanding and practice and extraordinary personal histories. It was a mind-enlarging experience for a lawyer and an astonishing period of change in Australian legal history.

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