![]() ![]() Gumatj clan, and Daymbalipu, an elder of theĭjapu clan, who represented that clan as well as acting on behalf of 11 other peoples with interests in the land. Rirratjingu clan Munffaraway, elder of the ![]() ![]() Supreme Court of the Northern Territory against the Nabalco Corporation, which had secured a 12-year bauxite mining lease from the In December 1968, the Yolngu people living in However, in 1968 theĬommonwealth government granted a special mineral lease to the company over the land for a period of 42 years. Nabalco without consultation with the traditional owners at the time. ![]() The Yolngu people, the traditional owners ofĪrnhem Land (which includes the Gove Peninsula), had petitioned theĪustralian House of Representatives in Augustīark petition after the government had sold part of the Arnhem Land reserve on 13 March of that year to a High Court of Australia two decades later in Mabo v Queensland (No 2), when the notion of terra nullius was found to be false. Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, it was overruled by the Although Milirrpum was not appealed beyond the The issue of terra nullius was not contemplated in the case. The decision also noted that the Crown had the power to extinguish native title, if it existed. Instead his ruling recognised that in the law of the time ofīritish colonisation of Australia there was a distinction between settled colonies, where the land, being "desert and uncultivated", was claimed by right of occupancy, and conquered or ceded colonies. Yolngu claimants on a number of issues of law and fact, rejecting the doctrine ofĪboriginal title. Native title in Australia, and the first significant legal case forĪboriginal land rights in Australia, decided on 27 April 1971. Northern Territory, was the first litigation on Milirrpum v Nabalco Pty Ltd, also known as the Gove land rights case because its subject was land known as the First Australian Aboriginal land rights case, heard in the NT Supreme Court in 1971 ![]()
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