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Michael Dillon

Michael Dillon is a visiting fellow at the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research at the Australian National University.

August 2016

  • Aboriginal activists from the Noongar ‘Tent Embassy’ march down central Adelaide Terrace in Perth, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012. on their way to Government House to deliver a petition to the Queen. The activists delivered a petition to the Queen protesting a proposed $1 billion deal to settle native title claims over the state’s southwest region. (AAP Image/Cortlan Bennett) NO ARCHIVING

    Is the Timber Creek native title settlement just compensation for dispossession?

    Michael Dillon
    While state and federal governments have largely failed to bring justice to native title holders, the courts have shown small steps can be valuable