Aboriginal land return process to be reviewed, paper released

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The Tasmanian state government has used International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples to release a discussion paper on how the process governing land hand-backs to the Tasmanian Aboriginal community can be improved.

The paper, entitled Improving the model for returning land to the Aboriginal community, seeks to identify barriers to returning land and to improve the land return process.