BORA Foreshore and Seabed Bill [pdf, 125 KB]
...that for the purposes of a race discrimination analysis native title and fee simple are to be equated with one another. It will be recalled these three cases concerned the compatibility of various forms of state legislation with, inter alia, section 10(1) Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth). 61. In Mabo (No. 1), Dawson J held (in dissent) that even if the plaintiffs could show that aboriginal land rights in the Murray Islands, and the surrounding seabed, had survived the assertion of...