NOOKANBAH Whose Land, Whose Law

WEST AUSTRALIANA ABORIGINAL

First Edition. Illustrated. ABORIGINAL STUDIES It looks like there’s two laws, white man law and Aboriginal law … Now this is the way we are thinking – to pull the white man from the ears to listen to what the Aboriginal Law will say”. – Dicky Skinner

• 351 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm. #30923R/010124

• The Noonkanbah drama from the Aboriginal viewpoint; the struggle to defend a particular piece of sacred ground against a proposed oil well, which involved the Noonkanbah people, the miners and the Western Australian Government; Amax; land rights; mining.

• Amax Exploration (Australia)
• Aboriginal Australians — Western Australia — Noonkanbah — Government relations
• Aboriginal Australians — Western Australia — Noonkanbah — History
• Passive resistance — Western Australia — Noonkanbah
• Aboriginal Australians — Western Australia — Noonkanbah — Land tenure
• Mines and mineral resources — Social aspects — Western Australia — Noonkanbah
• Land rights – Claims, disputes, hearings
• Land rights – Mining industry
• Land rights – Excisions and leases – Mining leases
• Noonkanbah / Yungngora (WA West Kimberley SE51-12)
• Fitzroy Crossing (WA West Kimberley SE51-12)