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Native Title Law Database

The Native Title Law Database is the most comprehensive collection of publicly accessible native title case and legislation summaries in Australia. Previously published as What's New in Native Title, the database is a key resource for traditional owners, practitioners and researchers.

Each item includes a summary and link to the source judgment or piece of legislation. Use the Search all function to search by legal issue or subject, court, native title or language group names, year, jurisdiction, and any other keywords or phrases.

Summaries of cases and legislation from 2014 are now available on the database. Summaries of earlier legal developments will become available on a rolling basis.

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641 - 650 of 965 search results

Title Year Issues Legislation considered Jurisdiction
Coulthard v State of South Australia (Adnyamath, Ngadjuriand and Wilyakali Overlap Claim) [2018] FCA 1993 2018 s 87 Native Title Act 1993 (Cth), s 225 Native Title Act 1993 (Cth) South Australia
Ngarluma Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC v Ramirez (No 2) [2018] FCA 2042 2018 Federal Court of Australia Act 1976 (Cth) Western Australia
Kemppi v Adani Mining Pty Ltd [2018] FCA 2012 2018 s 203BE Native Title Act 1993 (Cth), Native Title (Indigenous Land Use Agreements) Regulations 1999 (Cth), Federal Court of Australia Act 1976 (Cth) Queensland
Kemppi v Adani Mining Pty Ltd (No 5) [2018] FCA 2104 2018 Native Title (Indigenous Land Use Agreements) Regulations 1999 (Cth), Federal Court of Australia Act 1976 (Cth), s 203BE Native Title Act 1993 (Cth) Queensland
Manado (on behalf of the Bindunbur Native Title Claim Group) v State of Western Australia [2018] FCA 854 2018 Western Australia
Manado on behalf of the Bindunbur Native Title Claim Group v State of Western Australia [2018] FCAFC 238 2018 Titles (Validation) and Native Title (Effect of Past Acts) Act 1995 (WA), s 225 Native Title Act 1993 (Cth), s 212 Native Title Act 1993 (Cth), s 223 Native Title Act 1993 (Cth) Western Australia
Boney v Attorney General of New South Wales [2018] FCAFC 218 2018 s 66B Native Title Act 1993 (Cth) New South Wales
Huddleston v Northern Territory of Australia [2019] FCA 6 2019 s 66B Native Title Act 1993 (Cth) Northern Territory
Manado (on behalf of the Bindunbur Native Title Claim Group) v State of Western Australia [2019] FCA 30 2019 s 81 Native Title Act 1993 (Cth), s 94A Native Title Act 1993 (Cth), s 86G Native Title Act 1993 (Cth), s 87 Native Title Act 1993 (Cth) Western Australia
Pate v State of Queensland [2019] FCA 25 2019 Land Act 1994 (Qld), s 61 Native Title Act 1993 (Cth), s 86G Native Title Act 1993 (Cth), s 24FA Native Title Act 1993 (Cth), Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 (NSW), s 24FC Native Title Act 1993 (Cth) Queensland
Last updated: 26 June 2023