| Summary: | Indigenous Australians share with the Indigenous peoples of the world a commitment to govern their lands. Increasingly, international law standards are providing for the right of Indigenous participation in decisions affecting natural resources and land use. These rights are derived from common law. In practical terms, the degree of self- governance is provided by national statutes and treaties or through the declarations and protocols of international bodies like the United Nations. Indigenous peoples, and legal and other professionals have actively engaged a number of international and national legal mechanisms to achieve degrees of self-governance in Canada, the US, Greenland, Denmark, Norway, New Zealand and Australia. This book presents these dynamic precedents in the ongoing effort for Indigenous self-governance.
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