The commonwealth's indigenous land tenure reform agenda - whose aspirations, and for what outcomes?

Since the Reeves Review of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 (Cth) in the late 1990s, the Commonwealth has been pursuing an Indigenous land tenure reform agenda, the underlying premise of which is that traditionally grounded, communal forms of land title are a barrier to wealth creation and that communally owned lands should give way to individualised and alienable rights in land. Drawing on a considerable body of background research and analysis, my Research Paper argues that weak links are being made between increasing opportunities for economic development (including private home ownership) and the need for Indigenous land tenure reform.