Federal Court of Australia
Federal Court of Australia
Gunggandji-Mandingalbay Yidinji Peoples Prescribed Bodies Corporate Aboriginal Corporation v Murray [2021] FCA 94 File numbers: QUD 621 of 2019
Judgment of: REEVES J
Date of judgment: 12 February 2021
Catchwords: NATIVE TITLE – where prescribed native title body corporate seeks to gain possession of land from Aboriginal occupants who also claim native title rights – where native title body corporate must prove respondents have no native title rights and interests which entitle them to the land – consideration of onus of proof when proving a negative where respondents have greater means to adduce evidence of right claimed – declaration made
Legislation: Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006 (Cth) Native Title (Prescribed Bodies Corporate) Regulations 1999 (Cth) Native Title Act 1993 (Cth) Aboriginal Land Act 1991 (Qld) Aborigines Act 1971 (Qld) Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (Land Holding) Act 1985 (Qld) (repealed) Community Services (Aborigines) Act 1984 (Qld) (repealed) Land Act 1962 (Qld) (repealed) Land Act 1994 (Qld)
Cases cited: Apollo Shower Screens Pty Ltd v Building and Construction Industry Long Service Payments Corporation (1985) 1 NSWLR 561 Blanch t/as Hicksons v British American Tobacco Australia Services Ltd (2005) 62 NSWLR 653; [2005] NSWSC 241 Bodney v Bennell (2008) 167 FCR 84; [2008] FCAFC 63 De Rose v South Australia (No 2) (2005) 145 FCR 290; [2005] FCAFC 110 Drury v Western Australia (2020) 276 FCR 203; [2020] FCAFC 69 Mace v Queensland (2019) 274 FCR 41; [2019] FCAFC 233 Massoud v NRMA Insurance Ltd (1995) 8 ANZ Insurance Cases ¶61-257 Mundraby on behalf of the Combined Mandingalbay Yidinji-Gunggandji People v State of Queensland [2012] FCA 1039 Northern Territory of Australia v Alyawarr, Kaytetye, Warumungu, Wakaya Native Title Claim Group (2005) 145 FCR 442; [2005] FCAFC 135 Purkess v Crittenden (1965) 114 CLR 164 Worimi v Worimi Local Aboriginal Land Council (2010) 181 FCR 320; [2010] FCAFC 3
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