Gudjala People # 2 v Native Title Registrar [2008] FCAFC 157

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Gudjala People # 2 v Native Title Registrar [2008] FCAFC 157

ABORIGINES – native title – claimant application – registration of application – criteria for registration – sufficiency of asserted factual basis for native title rights and interests claimed – relationship to statutory requirements for contents of application – review of Registrar's decision – nature of review – appeal against review decision – whether unduly onerous standard applied by reference to sufficiency of evidence in support of application Held – appeal allowed

Native Title Act 1993 (Cth) s 62, s 190A(6), s 190D Alphapharm Pty Ltd v H Lundbeck A/S [2008] FCA 559 cited Bodney v Bennell (2008) 167 FCR 84 cited Borowski v Quayle [1966] VR 382 cited Martin v Native Title Registrar [2001] FCA 16 cited Members of the Yorta Yorta Aboriginal Community v Victoria (2002) 214 CLR 422 cited Northern Territory v Doepel (2003) 133 FCR 112 cited Wakaman People No 2 v Native Title Registrar (2006) 155 FCR 107 cited Western Australia v Ward (2002) 213 CLR 1 cited Western Australia v Strickland (2000) 99 FCR 33 cited

GUDJALA PEOPLE # 2 (DAVID ALLIE, ROE HERO, WILLIAM SANTO, GAVIN ALLINGHAM, ALLAN HUEN, GLORIA SANTO) v NATIVE TITLE REGISTRAR, STATE OF QUEENSLAND and ATTORNEY-GENERAL OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

QUD 391 OF 2007

FRENCH, MOORE AND LINDGREN JJ

27 AUGUST 2008

sydney (HEARD IN BRISBANE)

IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

QUEENSLAND DISTRICT REGISTRY QUD 391 OF 2007

ON APPEAL FROM A SINGLE JUDGE OF THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

BETWEEN: GUDJALA PEOPLE # 2 (DAVID ALLIE, ROE HERO, WILLIAM SANTO, GAVIN ALLINGHAM, ALLAN HUEN, GLORIA SANTO)

Appellants

AND: NATIVE TITLE REGISTRAR

First Respondent

STATE OF QUEENSLAND

Second Respondent

ATTORNEY-GENERAL OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA