Federal Court of Australia
FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA
Gandangara Local Aboriginal Land Council v Attorney General of New South Wales [2013] FCA 646 Citation: Gandangara Local Aboriginal Land Council v Attorney General of New South Wales [2013] FCA 646
Parties: GANDANGARA LOCAL ABORIGINAL LAND COUNCIL v THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF NEW SOUTH WALES IN HIS CAPACITY AS STATE MINISTER UNDER THE NATIVE TITLE ACT 1993 and NTSCORP LIMITED
File number: NSD 164 of 2012
Judge: GRIFFITHS J
Date of judgment: 3 July 2013
Date of corrigendum: 20 August 2013
Catchwords: NATIVE TITLE – application for determination by the Court that no native title exists in land – application determined without a hearing – whether evidence establishes that no native title rights or interests exists – relevant principles concerning assessment of evidence of native title rights or interests – whether native title in land extinguished – whether native title extinguished by previous exclusive possession acts
Legislation: Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 (NSW) ss 36, 42, 42G, 50 Native Title Act 1993 (Cth) ss 8, 13, 19, 23B, 23C, 23E, 61, 66, 86G, 226 Native Title (New South Wales) Act 1994 (NSW) ss 10, 20, 229 Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (NSW) s 88E Environmental Planning and Assessment Regulation 2000 (NSW) reg 25E
Cases cited: Ejai v Commonwealth (unreported Supreme Court of Western Australia, 18 March 1994) Fejo v Northern Territory (1998) 195 CLR 96 Gandangara Local Aboriginal Land Council v Minister for Lands for the State of New South Wales [2011] FCA 383 Kennedy v Queensland (2002) 190 ALR 707 Lightning Ridge Local Aboriginal Land Council v Premier of New South Wales in his capacity as the State Minister pursuant to the Native Title Act (1993) Cth [2012] FCA 792 Munn (for and on behalf of the Gungarri People) v Queensland (2001) 115 FCR 109 Nambucca Heads Local Aboriginal Land Council v Minister for Lands [2009] FCA 624 Ngambri Local Aboriginal Land Council v Attorney-General of New South Wales [2012] FCA 1484 Worimi Local Aboriginal Land Council v Attorney-General of New South Wales [2012] FCA 146
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