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Against Native Title by Eve Vincent & Crosscurrents by Katie Glaskin

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May 2018, no. 401

Against Native Title: Conflict and Creativity in Outback Australia by Eve Vincent

Aboriginal Studies Press, $34.95 pb, 252 pp, 9781925302080

Book 2 Cover Small (400 x 600)

Crosscurrents: Law and society in a native title claim to land and sea by Katie Glaskin

UWA Publishing, $39.99 pb, 302 pp, 9781742589442

Against Native Title by Eve Vincent & Crosscurrents by Katie Glaskin

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May 2018, no. 401

The year 2017 marked the twenty- fifth anniversary of the High Court’s 1992 decision in Mabo v Queensland (No 2) (Mabo), which recognised the existence of Indigenous people’s traditional ‘native title’ rights over the Murray Islands in the Torres Strait. This finding, and the passage through parliament of the Keating government’s Native Title Act the following year, dramatically changed the legal position of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australian society. Since then, there have been 338 determinations that native title exists in different parts of Australia, delivering significant benefits to a substantial proportion of claimant groups.

However, native title remains controversial among Indigenous people. In the words of the Kokatha Aboriginal woman Sue Coleman Haseldine, or ‘Aunty Sue’, the subject of Eve Vincent’s Against Native Title: Conflict and creativity in outback Australia: ‘Native title throughout the years has been a really shocking experience … first we had to choose one tribe … [and then] we were demanded to prove to the government our continual existence to the land for the past 200 years.’

Richard J. Martin reviews '"Against Native Title": Conflict and Creativity in Outback Australia' by Eve Vincent and 'Crosscurrents: Law and society in a native title claim to land and sea' by Katie Glaskin

Against Native Title: Conflict and Creativity in Outback Australia

by Eve Vincent

Aboriginal Studies Press, $34.95 pb, 252 pp, 9781925302080

Book 2 Cover Small (400 x 600)

Crosscurrents: Law and society in a native title claim to land and sea

by Katie Glaskin

UWA Publishing, $39.99 pb, 302 pp, 9781742589442