This note explains Northern Territory v Griffiths [2019] HCA 7 (13 March 2019) (“Griffiths”), a methodologically complex and lengthy opinion, and why it is significant. Asa native title case concerning land valuation in the northwestern corner of theNorthern Territory in Australia, it is essential for other settler states that also have native title. That is because Griffiths is the first case from the High Court of Australia that articulates how to compute compensation owed to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples for the extinguishment of native title rights under the Native Title Act 1993.Peer Reviewe
When Parliament enacted the Native Title Act 1993 it left fundamental questions to be resolved by th...
This article examines the scope and application of the statutory construction assessment that underl...
Australia’s 1992 landmark case of Mabo v. The State of Queensland [No. 2] revoked the concept of ter...
This note explains Northern Territory v Griffiths (‘Timber Creek’), which is a native title case con...
The history of compensation determinations under the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth) (NTA) is not a posi...
The recent developments in case law concerning compensation for extinguishment and impairment of nat...
This paper analyses the likely contribution of the Native Title Amendment Bill 1997 to the 'certaint...
In August 2016, the traditional owners of Timber Creek in the Northern Territory, the Ngaliwurru and...
In more than a decade since Mabo v. Queensland II’s recognition of Indigenous peoples’ rights to the...
The recognition of native title in the High Court’s Mabo decision in 1992, the Commonwealth Native T...
The High Court decision in Northern Territory v Mr A Griffiths (deceased) and Lorraine Jones on beha...
At the heart of the decision in The Wik Peoples v Queensland is the issue of extinguishment of nativ...
Australia’s Native Title Act 1993 (Cth) allows Indigenous Australians to lay claims to traditional ...
The Full Federal Court’s recent return to the native title field, in the Bodney v Bennell appeal dec...
In December 1996, the High Court of Australia handed down its judgment in the Wik case finding, by a...
When Parliament enacted the Native Title Act 1993 it left fundamental questions to be resolved by th...
This article examines the scope and application of the statutory construction assessment that underl...
Australia’s 1992 landmark case of Mabo v. The State of Queensland [No. 2] revoked the concept of ter...
This note explains Northern Territory v Griffiths (‘Timber Creek’), which is a native title case con...
The history of compensation determinations under the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth) (NTA) is not a posi...
The recent developments in case law concerning compensation for extinguishment and impairment of nat...
This paper analyses the likely contribution of the Native Title Amendment Bill 1997 to the 'certaint...
In August 2016, the traditional owners of Timber Creek in the Northern Territory, the Ngaliwurru and...
In more than a decade since Mabo v. Queensland II’s recognition of Indigenous peoples’ rights to the...
The recognition of native title in the High Court’s Mabo decision in 1992, the Commonwealth Native T...
The High Court decision in Northern Territory v Mr A Griffiths (deceased) and Lorraine Jones on beha...
At the heart of the decision in The Wik Peoples v Queensland is the issue of extinguishment of nativ...
Australia’s Native Title Act 1993 (Cth) allows Indigenous Australians to lay claims to traditional ...
The Full Federal Court’s recent return to the native title field, in the Bodney v Bennell appeal dec...
In December 1996, the High Court of Australia handed down its judgment in the Wik case finding, by a...
When Parliament enacted the Native Title Act 1993 it left fundamental questions to be resolved by th...
This article examines the scope and application of the statutory construction assessment that underl...
Australia’s 1992 landmark case of Mabo v. The State of Queensland [No. 2] revoked the concept of ter...