Doing Native Title as Self-Determination: Issues from Native Title Negotations in South Australia

Abstract

"The evolving Native Title system's failure to deliver appropriate concrete outcomes to its stakeholders (both Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians) presents a substantial challenge. Working at a statewide scale, South Australian claimants and institutions have aimed to deliver a set outcomes that reflect a high level of mutual recognition and commitment to self-determination. The South Australian approach offers lessons that are more widely applicable to other conflict situations and this paper explores those lessons."