Authorisation and decision-making in native title AAS Journal Chapter 4: Mabo and Australian

Chapter 4: Mabo and Australian History

the most comprehensive ever published

though it is now an established part of the legal and political landscape

Quentin Beresford is Associate Professor of Politics at Edith Cowan University

identity and culture that persist today

Authorisation and decision-making in native title AAS Journal Chapter 4: Mabo and AustralianNative title involves an interface between the Australian legal system and Indigenous legal, cultural and political systems. The assertion and management of native title rights involves collective action by sometimes large and disparate groups of Indigenous people. Contentious politics makes such collective action difficult and the courts will often be asked to decide whether group decisions have been validly made. In the last two decades a vast and