The Wire

The New South Wales Aboriginal Land Rights Act was created in 1983. A recent review into the Act, commissioned by three Local Aboriginal Land Councils, has found that so far it has been a “substantial failure” with a backlog in claims that would take 57 years to clear.

The Morling Review panel found a lot of the problems with the Act has to do with an overly bureaucratic system that makes processing Aboriginal Land Rights claims unnecessarily difficult and lengthy.Emma Rennie reports.