Fleshing out surfaces

Fend, Mechthild

doi:10.7765/9781526104663

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“…According to an account by lawyer Brian Kean-Cohen, the Land Commissioner's preliminary views were not considered to be favourable to the Aboriginal claimants, triggering their decision to appeal to the High Court. 80 Three days later, the NT government repealed and replaced the Town Planning Act 1969 with the NT Planning Act 1979. 81 Kean-Cohen explains the significance of the legislative change:…”

Section: Scheming Over Town Boundariesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Town Scheming: The Kenbi Aboriginal Land Claim and the Role of Planning in Securing Possession

Jackson

2022

Journal of Planning History

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This article provides a detailed history of Australia’s longest running Indigenous land claim (1978–2016), made by the Larrakia traditional owners to the coastal hinterland of Darwin, under Australia’s first land rights legislation. It reveals the efforts of the state and its planners to exercise territorial control and establish a racialised socio-political order through planning legislation and land use plans. Institutions designed to return land to Indigenous peoples represent a critical site of inquiry for understanding not only how injustice is reproduced and resisted in settler colonial contexts but how settler colonial urbanism is made and remade as imperial power.

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Section: Scheming Over Town Boundariesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…around Darwin to be treated as a town for the purposes of S.49 of the Planning Act 1979. 82 Under the Planning Act 1979 (NT) (S.4 (1)) town came to mean: (a) a town within the meaning of the Crown Lands Act (NT), (b) a municipality; or (c) land specified by the regulations to be an area which is to be treated as a town.…”

Section: Scheming Over Town Boundariesmentioning

confidence: 99%