The decision of the High Court this week that found native title is ‘property’, is bold.
It potentially opens the door to huge compensation to Indigenous groups in the Northern Territory. The matter centred around the Commonwealth’s allowing of a mine in northeast Arnhem land in 1968.
The decision effectively purports that native title is not just ‘a bundle of rights’ but ‘proprietary in nature’.
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