The land trust is the organisation appointed by the community to legally hold the title deeds.
An Aboriginal Lands Trust existed in New South Wales in the 1960s and into the 1970s, a body of which Lyall Munro Snr was a member, among others.
This organisation had land passed to it by the government as well as having some bequeathed to it in private individuals' wills.
This Bill was introduced by Don Dunstan, who was then South Australia’s Attorney-General and Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, and who later became Premier.
The Government of South Australia is also able to transfer other crown land to the control of the Trust.
[7][8] The other two Aboriginal landholding authorities in the state are Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) and Maralinga Tjarutja, also statutory bodies.