Search Results - Heidi Norman
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Local Aboriginal Land Councils as Environmental Managers: Practices and Opportunities
Published 2025-07-01Get full textThe NSW Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 created a network of Local Aboriginal Land Councils (LALCs) to receive returned lands and establish Aboriginal enterprises that bolstered economic security for Aboriginal people. The restituted Aboriginal land estate has enabled Aboriginal communities to purs...
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Indigenous Responses to Climate Change: From Climate Colonialism to Indigenous Climate Justice
Published 2025-07-01Get full textIndigenous peoples have acted across a wide range of fields to address climate change. In all contexts they encounter the barriers of established colonial relations of land and state sovereignty. Indigenous-centred agendas are defined in articulation, with and against these dominant regimes. In this...
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Planning for Climate Change in the NSW Local Aboriginal Land Council Estate
Published 2025-07-01Get full textThe Aboriginal land estate in NSW is uniquely vulnerable to the physical risks of climate change and this jeopardises the rights and interests of First Nations peoples. This paper presents the findings of research and knowledge exchange between a cross-disciplinary research team and Local Aboriginal...
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