A recent decision of Justice Reeves of the Federal Court creates more questions than it answers for proponents seeking to use Indigenous land use agreements to provide Native Title certainty for their projects, say Mark Geritz, Tosin Aro and Tim Nielsen.
2 Feb 2012
How can a project proponent undertake numerous negotiation meetings with relevant native title parties and excitedly reach agreement (or at least in principle agreement) in relation to the undertaking of a project with those parties, only to subsequently find that the agreement is not worth the paper it is written on?
15 Jul 2010
If an appropriate policy approach can be developed and implemented, companies should be able to enhance their community relationships and strengthen their standing in both the Indigenous and broader communities.
24 Apr 2008
Some welcome amendments have recently been made to the Native Title Act, which it's hoped will improve the Act's workability and the performance of the native title system. Further amendments should follow in the next few months.
30 Apr 2007
The importance of the Single Noongar Claim No 1 case is that it demonstrates that native title can continue to exist in a metropolitan area
30 Oct 2006
