At 08:36 PM 16/7/99, Lynn Pollack wrote: >reconnet: reconciliation email network > >The Victorian State Government is currently considering its native title >options, including whether to pass further native title legislation, as it >is entitled to do under the Federal Native Title Amendment Act 1998 (NTAA). > >The State Government has already used discretionary powers under the NTAA. > >In 1998, passage of the Land Titles Validation (Amendment) Act confirmed >and validated otherwise invalid property titles, at the expense of native >title. > snip People interested in this petition might also be interested in the following fairly staggering fact: In 1788 Victorian Aboriginies controlled some 2,2760,000 hectares of land. In 1999, after some thirty years of the so called "Land Rights Era", Victorian Kooris have control of some ONE HUNDREDTH OF ONE PERCENT of Victoria. Thats 1/10,000 of the land which they held at the time of white occupation. According to most estimates, the Koori poopulation of Victoria is today about the same size as it was in 1788. It is by a significant margin the smallest percentage of land controlled by indigenous people in mainland Australia. Only NSW comes halfway close with somewhere betwee .06% and .1% of land under indigenous control (between 6 and ten times the Victorian percentage, but still trivial in the extreme compared with the original area, and even with any other mainland state). This might point the way to a good campaign objective. 10% of the land originally controlled would amount to a 1000 fold improvement on the existing situation in Victoria! (These figures were kindly brought to my attention by Wayne Atkinson, Yorta Yorta elder and historian). Cheers Rod Rod Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hurstbridge, Victoria, Australia WWW http://www.netspace.net.au/~rodhagen ------------------------------------------------------- RecOzNet2 has a page @ http://www.green.net.au/recoznet2 and is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/ To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], and in the body of the message, include the words: unsubscribe announce or click here mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20announce This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use." RecOzNet2 is archived for members @ http://www.mail-archive.com/
