As for any proceeds from mining, traditional care takers should have say how much they want to keep for rehabilitations and the rest goes to the Commonwealth.
As for HK, do you want to be Singapore II or the united Middle Kingdom?
True Carlos, you're right to point out it's all in the definition of what constitutes traditional owners. I suppose I imagined the USA crumbling into ruins. As it is, it's clear that neither parties are satisfied with the existing state apparatus. Something will have to give. At heart of the matter is the inability for the Christian Right to reconcile with those who would prefer doing away the founding meta-narratives of the USA as the LAND OF OPPORTUNITY/ THE FREE/ ETC. The division between RED & BLUE states is far from a tidy territorial schism. Irrespective of which the November Election swings, the quest for LEGITIMACY OF THE STATE is already dead.
This brings me to the definition of traditional owners. I have in mind that, from the ruins, are opportunities to redefine AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES. As ASIMOV once observed, either the future are either consist of ruins/ regeneration. Frankly, it's NOT my perogative to say how should the US rebuild/ disversify itself. Because the US is big in possibly ever sense of the World, each of us who not US citizens, we do have a stake abouts developmental direction(s).
So I would define TRADITIONAL OWNERS are anyone who's interested in working in harmony with the natural environments, whatever is left of it. This can a long American tradition that goes back to Thoreau's WALDEN.