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LARRAKIA NATIVE TITLE
CLAIM OVER AREAS OF METROPOLITAN DARWIN
Risk v Northern
Territory of Australia (Unreported, FCA, 17 May 2006, Mansfield J)
The Larrakia claim involved a number
of claimant applications for the recognition of native title over
land and waters in and around Darwin. The issues to be determined
were:
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Whether the Larrakia people had
established that they held native title rights and interests in
the claim area under s 223(1) of the
Native Title Act 1993 (Cth)
(NTA)
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Where established, the nature and
extent of those rights and interests;
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Whether native title had been
extinguished under the common law or the NTA
Mansfield J was not satisfied that the
applicants had met the requirements of section 223(1) of the Native
Title Act 1993 (Cth). More specifically, he found that the current
laws and customs of the Larrakia people were not ‘‘traditional’ in
the sense required by s 223(1) and as explained by the High Court in
Yorta Yorta’.[1]
According to Mansfield J, this was because a combination of
historical circumstances interrupted and changed the laws and
customs of the present day Larrakia people from those which existed
at the time of sovereignty. The applicants have lodged an appeal.
See case note in May/June Native
Title Newsletter.
Related Cases
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Dangalaba 1 - Tribunal File Number:
DC96/1, Federal Court Number: NTD6010/98.
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Dinah Beach - Tribunal File Number:
DC96/2, Federal Court Number: NTD6011/98.
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Dangalaba 3 - Tribunal File Number:
DC96/3, Federal Court Number: NTD6012/98.
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Hundred of Ayers - Tribunal File
Number: DC96/4, Federal Court Number: NTD6013/98.
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Elizabeth River - Tribunal File
Number: DC96/5, Federal Court Number: NTD6014/98.
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Binybarra - Totem Rd/Buffalo Creek -
Tribunal File Number: DC96/6, Federal Court File Number:
NTD6015/98.
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Dangalaba 7 - Tribunal File Number:
DC96/8, Federal Court Number: NTD6018/98.
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Dangalaba 8 - Tribunal File Number:
DC96/9, Federal Court Number: NTD6019/98.
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Larrakia - Palmerston - Tribunal
File Number: DC94/1, Federal Court Number: NTD6007/98.
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Larrakia - Darwin - Tribunal File
Number: DC96/7, Federal Court Number: NTD6017/98.
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Dangalaba 9 - Tribunal File Number:
DC97/3, Federal Court Number: NTD6022/98.
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Larrakia No. 2 - Tribunal File
Number: DC99/1, Federal Court Number: NTD6001/99.
Online Resources
Other Sources
ABC Asia Pacific, 23 May 2006, “Discover
the fate of the Larrakia’s native title claim for parts of the
Darwin area”
ABC, 21 April 2006, “The
Future of Native Title”
Stateline
Glindelmann, R., Creswell, P. and
Jasper, M. May 2006, ‘Defining
‘traditional’ laws and customs – William Risk v Northern Territory
of Australia’ Focus Native
Title Allens Arthur Robinson
Koori Mail, 17 May 2006, “Larrakia
say they’ll fight” The
Guardian
National Native Title Tribunal, 10 May
2006, ‘Determination
of Native Title – Larrakia’
Native Title Hot Spots Issue 19: 32
National Native Title Tribunal, June 2006 ‘’Vibrant,
dynamic society’ not enough’ Talking Native Title Newsletter
Issue 19: 6
Related Materials
Australian Indigenous Law Reporter
2002, ‘Court
and Tribunal Decisions – Australia: Quall v Risk’
25
Carey, C. and Collinge, A. 1997, ‘Stirrings:
Larrakia Native Title: The Long March’
Indigenous Law Bulletin 52
Hindson, K. 2001, ‘Casenote on Risk
(On behalf of the Larrakia People) v Northern Territory’ Native
Title News 5 (3): 43-45
Lahn, J. 2007, ‘“No
vacancies at the Starlight Motel”: Larrakia identity and the native
title claims process’ in Smith, B. R. The social effects of
native title: recognition, translation, coexistence. CAEPR
Research monograph (ANU E-Press,
Canberra).
Lambert, C. 1998, ‘Bill Risk on behalf
of the Larrakia People v Douglas Williamson QC’ Native Title News 3
(10): 148-150
National Native Title Tribunal, 4
April 1997, ‘Larrakia
claim to be mediated’ Media
Release
Stewart, T. 1996 “Larrakia
claim Darwin harbour” Green
Left Weekly
Strelein, L. 1999, ‘Fiction
Over Fact: Extinguishing Native Title in the Larrakia Case’
Indigenous Law Bulletin 16
Strelein, L. 2006, ‘The Vulnerability
of Native Title: Fejo v Northern Territory’, Compromised
Jurisprudence: Native Title Cases Since Mabo (Aboriginal Studies
Press, Canberra).
[1] Risk v Northern
Territory of Australia (unreported, FCA, 17 May 2006, Mansfield
J), Summary [14].
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