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Native title is not a grant or right created by governments. Native title in Australia includes rights and interests relating to land and waters held by Indigenous Australians under traditional laws and customs, and recognised in accordance with the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth). [2]
Today, Indigenous sovereignty generally relates to "inherent rights deriving from spiritual and historical connections to land". [1] Indigenous studies academic Aileen Moreton-Robinson has written that the first owners of the land were ancestral beings of Aboriginal peoples, and "since spiritual belief is completely integrated into human daily activity, the powers that guide and direct the ...
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National Native Title Tribunal definition: [3] [Native title is] the communal, group or individual rights and interests of Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islander people in relation to land and waters, possessed under traditional law and custom, by which those people have a connection with an area which is recognised under Australian law (s 223 NTA).
It was the first law by any Australian government that legally recognised the Aboriginal system of land ownership, legislating the concept of inalienable freehold title, and thus the first of all Aboriginal land rights legislation in Australia. The Land Rights Act is a fundamental piece of social reform.
The court held that rights arising under native title were recognised within Australia's common law. [19] These rights were sourced from Indigenous laws and customs and not from a grant from the Crown. [20] However, these rights were not absolute and may be extinguished by validly enacted State or Commonwealth legislation or grants of land ...
As a result, native title rights could coexist depending on the terms and nature of the particular pastoral lease. Where there was a conflict of rights, the rights under the pastoral lease would extinguish the remaining native title rights. The decision provoked a significant debate in Australian politics. [2]
Upheld non-exclusive native title rights to the sea and sea bed 2002: Western Australia v Ward: High Court: Native title is a bundle of rights, which may be extinguished one by one 2002: Yorta Yorta v Victoria: High Court: Upheld a finding that the "tide of history" had "washed away" traditional laws and customs and that the native title claim ...