Not exact matches
Of the 1 798
applications lodged in the first six months of 2000, 50 per cent still had to be referred under the Native
Title Act 1993 (Cth) at the time of this audit examination.
Since the first native
title claimant
application was
lodged by the Quandamooka Peoples in 1995, the process of resolving their native
title required the claim group to decide who are the people in the native
title claim group, who are the person or people that are the applicant, and negotiate with multiple parties about their native
title rights and interests over North Stradbroke Island and some of the surrounding islands and waters of Morton Bay.
This prompted the NLC to
lodge a native
title application over the area.
In the NNTT determination in the Roy Dixon case Franklin QC commented on the NNTT's exercise of its powers and functions when a native
title party
lodges an objection to a government party's
application of the expedited procedure exception to the right to negotiate.
There are serious concerns that the Government's
lodging of non-claimant
applications are impacting on native
title parties» procedural rights and causing extinguishment little by little in New South Wales.
It means that for areas over which a Government
lodges a non-claimant native
title application, if no native
title claim is registered in time, future acts may proceed without having to comply with the procedural rights set out in the NTA and state legislation.
There are also many cases where, after the native
title party has had to prepare and
lodge an objection to the expedited procedure, the tenement
application has been withdrawn or the expedition notice dropped.