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The Wik peoples lodged their claim on 30 June 1993 [7] in the Federal Court of Australia. [1]: p 167 The claim was lodged before the commencement of Native Title legislation, [10] introduced into Australia following the decision in the Mabo case. [5]: p 105 The State of Queensland was the first respondent to the claim. The Commonwealth of ...
Mabo v Queensland (No 2) (commonly known as the Mabo case or simply Mabo) is a landmark decision of the High Court of Australia that recognised the existence of Native Title in Australia. [1] It was brought by Eddie Mabo and others against the State of Queensland , and decided on 3 June 1992.
For example, in 1905, Queensland's Chief Protector of Aboriginals cited the Act to define a "half-caste" as "Any person being the offspring of an aboriginal mother and other than an aboriginal father – whether male or female, whose age, in the opinion of the Protector, does not exceed sixteen, is deemed to be an aboriginal". The Chief ...
The claim area itself is part of a much larger area included in the "Single Noongar Claim", covering the south-western corner of Western Australia. An appeal was subsequently lodged and in 2008 the Full Court of the Federal Court upheld parts of the appeal by the Western Australian and Commonwealth governments against Justice Wilcox's judgment.
Any person who is ready to take possession of a unoccupied property/land subject to satisfy all the demands of the Laws of the State of jurisdiction may claim unfavourable possession. [ 5 ] In case when adverse possession has not been fully developed, is not organized and lacks order, this called " incomplete adverse possession ".
Mabo v Queensland (No 1), [1] was a significant court case decided in the High Court of Australia on 8 December 1988. It found that the Queensland Coast Islands Declaratory Act 1985 , [ 2 ] which attempted to retrospectively abolish native title rights, was not valid according to the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 .
Justice Mortimer also ordered that the State of Queensland pay $95,000 in compensation to Lex Wotton, $10,000 to Agnes Wotton, and $115,000 to Cecilia Wotton. [3] According to the Wottons' legal team, the judgment left the door open for potentially hundreds of claims for compensation by Aboriginal residents of Palm Island who were affected by ...
The Queensland Coast Islands Declaratory Act 1985 was an Act of the Parliament of Queensland, the intent of which was to retroactively abolish native title claims by Torres Strait Islanders to islands off the coast of Queensland, specifically Murray Island. [1]