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The Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Land Rights Act, 1981 grants certain land and other rights to the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara people in South Australia. The Act began its life as the Pitjantjatjara Land Rights Act and commenced operation on 2 October 1981. Symbolically, the Act came into force on the one-year anniversary of the date when Premier Tonkin and the Chairman of the Pitjantjatjara Council, Mr Kawaki Thompson, signed their agreement to a Pitjantjatjara Land Rights Bill. == History == The Hon Robert Lawson QC MLC provides the following history to the Act: In 1976, an activist group, the Pitjantjatjara Council ('the Pit Council') was formed to lobby for land rights for the Pitjantjatjara people across South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory. Premier Dunstan established a Working Party to investigate the feasibility of a separate lands trust to cover the North-West Reserve. 'Helped by their solicitors', the Pit Council concluded that they should 'avoid imposing an alien notion like trusteeship': (66, 68 ). The solution was vesting title in a new entity of which all Pitjatjantjara people would be members. It appears that the aboriginal people had been convinced that they needed the 'fee simple' to their lands. They wanted something superior to the communal title arrangements which had been granted by the Fraser government under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act, 1976 (the 'NT Act'). In November 1978, Dunstan introduced a Bill which adopted most of the recommendations of the Working Party. In his second reading speech Dunstan did not disguise that he was seeking a wider audience than his Parliamentary colleagues and the indigenous people of the north-west. The Commonwealth Government's "Documenting Democracy" site states that a Parliamentary Committee investigated the merits of such a Bill, and reported in 1979 in favour of an Act that would give total rights to the Pitjantjatjara people over their traditional land in the northwest of South Australia. Lawson continues: ...the provisions of this Bill will give South Australians an honourable place in international eyes with regard to the relation of Government to the treatment and status of ethnic minorities. The Bill had not passed when Labor lost office in September 1979, Dunstan having resigned in February of that year. In October 1980, the Tonkin Liberal government introduced an amended Bill after a long period of negotiations in which Premier Tonkin took a leading and personal role. The earlier Bill was said to be 'unworkable', especially in its dealing with issues relating to exploration and mining. The new Bill finally passed through both Houses in March 1981. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Land Rights Act 1981」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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