Review of Conference: Emerging issues and future directions

The common law recognition of Native Title in the High Court’s Mabo decision in 1992 and the Commonwealth Native Title Act have transformed the ways in which Indigenous peoples’ rights over land may be formally recognised and incorporated within Australian legal and property regimes. The process of implementation has raised a number of crucial issues of concern to Native Title claimants and other interested parties. This series of papers is designed to contribute to the information and discussion.

This paper presents Graeme Neate's summation of the National Native Title Tribunal's Native Title Forum 2001: Negotiating Country held on the first week of August in Brisbane.