Forwarded from Christine Howes: Press Release........ Premier, HON. PETER BEATTIE 28/9/99 Beattie: Lease legislation safe from Senate There was no risk that the Senate could overturn Queensland legislation specifying that grazing homestead perpetual leases and grazing homestead freeholding leases extinguish native title, Premier Peter Beattie said today. "There are rumours that the status of these two kinds of lease as interests that extinguish native title are now subject to disallowance by the Senate," said Mr Beattie. "I want to assure people that these rumours are completely wrong. "Concerns have been expressed that the recent disallowance by the Senate of the Northern Territory's alternative provisions to the Commonwealth right to negotiate means that the inclusion of these leases on the list of exclusive Schedule interests which extinguish native title is also subject to Senate scrutiny. "Such concerns are not valid. "The process provided for under the Commonwealth Native Title Act for Federal Parliament approval of state schemes as alternatives to the Commonwealth's right to negotiate is completely different to the mechanism provided for under the Commonwealth Native Title Act for the determination of whether the grant of a particular lease or of a particular interest in land extinguishes native title. "The Commonwealth Native Title Act required Queensland to pass complementary legislation to adopt those State leases and grants which had been approved by the Federal Government as interests that extinguish native title. "These two kinds of lease were included on this list. "My Government wanted to provide, at the earliest possible time, certainty for all those involved in the native title process. "That was why the first piece of legislation I introduced included ensuring that those interests included by the Federal Government as interests which extinguished native title became law in Queensland. "It is completely mischievous and wrong to now suggest that the content of this State legislation - which has been law for more than a year - can now be the subject of review and be overturned in the Senate." ------------------------------------------------------- RecOzNet2 has a page @ http://www.green.net.au/recoznet2 and is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/ To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], and in the body of the message, include the words: unsubscribe announce or click here mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20announce This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use." RecOzNet2 is archived for members @ http://www.mail-archive.com/
