High Court
In March this year, the High Court handed down a decision many Aboriginal land rights advocates had waited decades to see. In Commonwealth v Yunupingu, the court confirmed Native Title is a form of pr...
The High Court has granted Traditional Owners leave to appeal the Northern Territory Government's approval of a massive groundwater extraction licence at Singleton Station.
The Mabo case ended in an historic High Court decision in 1992 that rejected 'terra nullius' and recognised that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples can hold native title based on their own...
A prolonged legal battle in Kiribati involving the influence of its president which has kept an Australian expatriate judge from his family is heading back to its High Court.
Native title holders in South Australia's north have welcomed a High Court win over their right to a portion of land near Oodnadatta previously left out of their original claim.
The High Court has been praised after its historic lands rights decision that left the Commonwealth liable for up to $700 million in compensation.
The historic High Court ruling involving the Gumatj clan highlights the need for a national settlement process, the First Nations Economic Empowerment Alliance has said.
The Commonwealth has lost a High Court battle over whether it can be liable for up to $700 million in compensation for lost Native Title rights over a mining lease on Gumatj land.
An Aboriginal woman's bid to seek damages over alleged abuse while in forced state care is back on track after a High Court ruling. Joanne Willmot, 70, had tried to sue the Queensland government for a...
An historic test case determining the amount of compensation owed for distress caused by the Northern Territory government's neglect of remote rental housing will be heard in the NT Court of Appeal on...
Federal government claims an Indigenous win over a mining lease would lead to massive native title payouts across the Top End are "speculative", High Court justices have heard.
The federal government has argued that a court judgment over a mining lease would create "vast" claims for compensation from native title holders across the Northern Territory, if allowed to stand.
The Commonwealth can be held criminally liable for damages to Indigenous sacred sited, the country's highest court has ruled. The High Court on Wednesday overturned a decision from the Northern Territ...