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Report
Description

This report takes a person-centred approach to highlight the ways native title and related systems are failing to deliver land justice effectively. It calls for significant reform of the native title system to deliver land justice and fulfil fundamental human rights for First Nations people.

The report provides an account of the perspectives, aspirations and solutions of First Nations women, informed by in-depth interviews, submissions, a survey, publications and case law. In doing so, the report argues that the native title system cannot be separated from, and fails to deliver on, fundamental human rights such as participation, culture, self-determination and non-discrimination for First Nations people and particularly for First Nations women. 

The report's authors call for the Australian Government to enter into a new relationship with First Nations peoples through a commitment to working in genuine partnership, both within the native title system and more broadly.

The report emphasises the need to support participation of First Nations women and their communities in future reform work and makes 29 recommendations; these include broad structural reforms as well as amendments to the Native Title Act and the establishment of a First Nations Native Title Reform Council. The report also reiterates recommendations previously made by the Commission addressing land justice and cultural heritage reform. 

The report is an extension of the 2020 Wiyi Yani U Thangani (Women’s Voices): Securing Our Rights, Securing Our Future Report. 

 

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