Total area of land and forest in Australia that is Indigenous Estate (2020)

Total area of land and forest in Australia that is Indigenous Estate (2020)

3506 x 2481

‘What does it mean that land is an indigenous estate? Do the aborigines own that land in some collective form?

“The Indigenous estate is the total area of land over which Indigenous peoples and communities have either ownership, or management, or rights of use for customary purposes”

A much smaller area is owned and managed by indigenous people (note not aborigine)

The largest area is where indigenous Australians have “other special rights” which is defined as “ Lands subject to native title determinations, registered Indigenous Land Use Agreements and legislated special cultural use provisions. “’