Wik Peoples v Queensland
| Jurisdiction | Australia Federal only |
| Judgment Date | 1996 |
| Neutral Citation | [1996] HCA 40,1996-1223 HCA B |
| Year | 1996 |
| Date | 1996 |
| Court | High Court |
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145 cases
3 firm's commentaries
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Pre-1975 mining leases unlikely to extinguish native title in the absence of exclusive possession
...(actual inconsistency). The High Court rejected this argument decisively, finding that: "The decisions in both [Wik Peoples v Queensland (1996) 187 CLR 1] and Ward established that the grant of rights to use land for particular purposes (whether pastoral, mining or other purposes), if not a......
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De Rose v South Australia - The first approved native title compensation determination
...they are liable for acts that occurred on or before 23 December 1996, the date of the High Court's decision in Wik Peoples v Queensland (1996) 187 CLR 1. However, in some circumstances third parties, such as developers or project proponents, may be liable for compensation for 'future acts';......
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An odd couple: mining leases and native title can coexist - Western Australia v Brown [2014] HCA 8
...provisions under the NTA. Footnotes 1Western Australia v Ward (2002) 213 CLR 1 2(1998) 195 CLR 96 3Wik Peoples v Queensland (1996) 187 CLR 1 4Western Australia v Ward (2002) 213 CLR 1 5(2005) 145 FCR 290 The content of this article is intended to provide a general guide to the subject matte......
36 books & journal articles
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Native title and the 'acquisition of property' under the Australian constitution.
...native title projects considerable legal stability, strength and resistance to obliteration: at 90-1. In Wik Peoples v Queensland (1996) 187 CLR 1 ('Wik'), Kirby J was even more emphatic that what 'is in issue is title in respect of land': at 237 (emphasis in (31) See, eg, the discussion of......
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The Australian Constitution's Influence on the Common Law
...v General Jones Pty Ltd (1994) 179 CLR 520, 556–7 (Mason CJ, Deane, Dawson,Toohey and Gaudron JJ); Wik Peoples v Queensland (1996) 187 CLR 1, 176 (Gummow J); Kablev Director of Public Prosecutions (NSW) (1996) 189 CLR 51, 112 (McHugh J), 138 (Gummow J)('Kable').13 Zines, above n 11, 8–10.14......
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The Engineers Case Centenary: SCOTUS and the Origins of Australia's Scabrous Constitutional Signature
...CLR 501 (14 August 1991) Mabo v Queensland [No 2] (1992) 175 CLR 1 (3 June 1992) The Wik Peoples v Queensland (“Pastoral Leases Case”) (1996) 187 CLR 1 (23 December 1996) Western Australia v Ward (2002) 213 CLR 1 (8 August 2002) New South Wales v Commonwealth (“Work Choices Case”) (2006) 22......
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The Definition and Discovery of Facts in Native Title: The Historian's Contribution
...society and the demands of the Western _____________________________________________________________________________________ 5 (1996) 187 CLR 1 ('Wik'), 182–3 (Gummow J). 6 Bradley Selway, 'The Use of History and Other Facts in the Reasoning of the High Court of Australia' (2001) 20 Univers......
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