Land rights and development reform in remote Australia

There has been escalating media coverage of the view that Indigenous economic disadvantage and housing and infrastructure shortages are linked to communal title to land resulting from land rights and native title. Jon Altman, Craig Linkhorn and Jennifer Clarke challenge the view that privatising or individuating this land might generate better economic and social outcomes for Indigenous people by reviewing the existing literature and by examining recently available statistics, especially on Indigenous housing need and affordability