❓ Question concerns the history and circumstances surrounding a proposal to excise land from a pastoral lease for an Aboriginal Living Area, specifically focusing on the area agreed upon by the lessee. The answer details the history of the proposal, including delays and suspensions, and highlights the need to formalize land tenure and access for the community.
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(1) What is that history and circumstances surrounding the proposal to excise 2990ha from the Bulka pastoral lease?
(2) What area of land, if any, did the lessee agree could be excised for an Aboriginal Living Area?
(2) What area of land, if any, did the lessee agree could be excised for an Aboriginal Living Area?
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Answered
10 April 2003
Responded by
Parliamentary Secretary representing the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure
Response time
28 days
Following this relocation, the Department of Land Administration commenced action to establish a new reserve. After initially declining a request to voluntarily surrender the designated area, the lessee agreed in 1991 to the excision of a small area (about 1 square kilometre). However, processing of the excision was delayed by access problems and finally suspended in 1993, along with all other living area applications, when the member was Minister for Lands. As the community does not currently have land tenure or legal access, there is a need to formalise these arrangements. The Minister for Lands will need to consider advice from the Department of Land Administration, other agencies and the Aboriginal Access and Living Areas working group before determining this matter. However, it should be noted that the area described by the exclusion map may be subject to refinement after site inspection and survey. The provision by the Land Administration Act 1997 of a 2-year statutory negotiation period anticipates this circumstance. (2) Approximately 1 square kilometre.
As the community does not currently have land tenure or legal access, there is a need to formalise these arrangements. The Minister for Lands will need to consider advice from the Department of Land Administration, other agencies and the Aboriginal Access and Living Areas working group before determining this matter. However, it should be noted that the area described by the exclusion map may be subject to refinement after site inspection and survey. The provision by the Land Administration Act 1997 of a 2-year statutory negotiation period anticipates this circumstance. (2) Approximately 1 square kilometre.
(2) Approximately 1 square kilometre.
As the community does not currently have land tenure or legal access, there is a need to formalise these arrangements. The Minister for Lands will need to consider advice from the Department of Land Administration, other agencies and the Aboriginal Access and Living Areas working group before determining this matter. However, it should be noted that the area described by the exclusion map may be subject to refinement after site inspection and survey. The provision by the Land Administration Act 1997 of a 2-year statutory negotiation period anticipates this circumstance. (2) Approximately 1 square kilometre.
(2) Approximately 1 square kilometre.
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