Importance of the Woodward Royal Commission

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The Woodward Royal was a critically important in transforming the between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians because a Royal Commission holds the highest level of . Whatever a Royal Commission is recognised as . It was also a very clever move by Prime Minister Whitlam because it only focussed on Rights in The Territory which, as a “territory” not a , did not have a State Government to object to and the investigation and findings. In supporting rights to land, the Royal Commission gave Aboriginal people some to negotiate with mining and developers who would make a lot of from use of the land. The Woodward Royal Commission was also a very formal way to Aboriginal culture because it acknowledged that Aboriginal beliefs and ceremonial were so that they may be enough reason for white Australians not to be able to the land.