Beyond Communal and Individual Ownership

Leon Terrill is a Research Director at the Indigenous Law Centre and a Lecturer at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He has previously worked as a senior lawyer with the Central Land Council, coordinator of the University of the South Pacific Community Legal Centre and as a lawyer with Victoria Legal Aid.

"Beyond Communal and Individual Ownership provides us with an entry point into that policy space, a vision of the policy alternatives that might be pursued in the future, and an analysis of the issues that will need to be addressed and determined whichever course is adopted. This is a very substantial achievement in itself." – Inside Story, Michael Dillon, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research at the ANU, Canberra

• 1. Introduction: From land rights to land reform 2. Land Reform: Theory, Terminology and Concepts 3. Aboriginal Land in the Northern Territory 4. Communities on Aboriginal Land 5. Australian Debate about Land Reform and the New Political Consensus 6. The Reforms 7. Making Sense of the Reforms 8. Alternative Approaches? 9. Conclusion