Indigenous leader attacks Australian native title laws

Updated February 9, 2010 13:10:51

Prominent Australian Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson has given a damning assessment of Native Title. Speaking to members of the American Bar Association in Sydney, Mr Pearson labelled Australia's laws governing the ownership of land by Indigenous Australians a travesty and a quagmire. And he's accused the judicial system of failing to serve indigenous Australians.

Presenter: Emily Bourke
Speaker: Noel Pearson, Cape York Institute

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