Sentences with phrase «bay high court decision»

The last step in completing the claim required the Northern Territory Government to sign off on compensation for excess fishing near the land under the Blue Mud Bay High Court decision, announced this afternoon by the Northern Land Council.

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The Blue Mud Bay decision from the High Court stands as one of the most significant affirmations of Indigenous legal rights in recent Australian history... The High Court's decision gives Australia the opportunity, belatedly, to catch up with Canada and New Zealand in building co-operative structures between government, business and Indigenous peoples in commercial fisheries... [120]

The High Court handed down its decision on the Blue Mud Bay case.

For example, Indigenous peoples» rights to exclusive ownership of eighty percent of the Northern Territory coastline, including the inter tidal zone was upheld by the High Court in the recent Blue Mud Bay decision.