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Australia's rangelands have a distinctive land tenure regime, namely pastoral leasehold, capable of adaptive reform to accommodate emerging multiple values, uses and users. The most promising ingredients in tenure reform are: reactivation of the Crown's powers to allocate and regulate non-pastoral resource use, not only to lesseees, but also to third parties; expansion of public access routes and destinations within pastoral leases; recognition of new modes of diversification by lessees; trade-offs with lessees awarding additional rights over core areas, or other incentives, in return for reduced rights in peripheral multiple-use areas; and re- allocation of strategic land parcels to public ownership for multiple use.