Not exact matches
My first response to the Government's argument is that it is irrelevant that the
discriminatory operation of the NTA to extinguish and impair native title reflects the discrimination contained in the common
law test
of extinguishment.
The Government's primary argument is that, because the confirmation provisions are merely a codification
of common
law standards, the NTA does not perform any independent
discriminatory operation.
Even if the NTA were subject to the
operation of the RDA, the failure
of the Commonwealth to prohibit racially
discriminatory laws under the NTA would not come within its purview.