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Yunupingu clan court win may hit industry hard

SEVEN decades of Native Title decisions in the Northern Territory could be exposed to compensation claims after a ruling by the full bench of the Federal Court finding the government failed to act “on just terms” when it approved Nabalco’s bauxite mine on the Gove Peninsula in 1968.

 Gove mining operations

Gove mining operations

The court case involved two claims lodged in 2019 by the late Yunupingu, on behalf of the Gumatj clan. The first was an application for Native Title over land at Gove while the second was a compensation...

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