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Problems in Maori Land Legislation and the Woodward Report
Author(s) -
Dossor Peter
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
australian journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1839-4655
pISSN - 0157-6321
DOI - 10.1002/j.1839-4655.1976.tb00571.x
Subject(s) - legislation , alienation , project commissioning , commission , fragmentation (computing) , publishing , political science , law , royal commission , ecology , biology
Legislation in New Zealand dealing with Maori land, though well intentioned, has given rise to the twin problems of alienation and fragmentation. Legislation proposed by the Aboriginal Land Rights Commission for the Northern Territory of Australia basically avoids these pitfalls, but there are some clauses that could give rise to some forms of alienation and fragmentation.