Native Title, a legal recognition of Aboriginal rights over an area, is set to cover 60 per cent of Australia's landmass in the next 15 years - as Labor announces an inquiry into the legislation's ...

This is the largest ever sea claim in Australia, covering close to 37,800 square kilometres. It covers regions where both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communites reside. The Chairperson of ...

Queensland councils have desperately called on the government to provide financial support as they burn through ratepayers' money dealing with Native Title claims. Councils in the state are currently ...

Yes, the judges have opened the way for claims to be lodged against the federal government in relation to past actions that extinguished native title without payment of compensation. And if all ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. About 270 kilometres north-east of Alice Springs, you'll find Huckitta station. MARIA ROSS, NATIVE ...

It’s taken a decade and more than 100 documents submitted to the federal court for First Nations peoples but they’ve cleared a major hurdle in the fight to get native title determinations over a large ...

Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus on Tuesday announced an inquiry into the Native Title Act, with the Australian Law Reform Commission tasked with identifying any "inequality, unfairness or weaknesses" in ...

The Albanese government is bracing for a nationwide wave of compensation battles with Aboriginal groups after the High Court ruled native title is “property”, a finding predicted to be as significant ...

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Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Social Sciences and Humanities Researech Council of Canada. Native title creates the potential for indigenous ...