... to access pastoral land for the purpose of visiting sacred sites and ceremonies _ Wik celebrate _ pastoralists angered, demanded federal government act to extinguish native title completely _ Queensland issued title and leases without following native title provision _ issue not sorted out by a Mabo/native title Act: _ John Howard sought to modify the Wik Decision by a ten point plan: _ Howard 10 point plan which claimed to be a compromise _ concerned ... of land _ allowed approval of Queensland government"s actions _ some leases give lease holders exclusive use of land _ local/state go...

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... legislative response to the decision of the High Court in the Wik case. In Wik, the High Court decided that the grant of a pastoral lease does not necessarily extinguish native title, ie that native title can co-exist with rights conferred to pastoralists under the terms of their leases. The Wik decision took away no rights from pastoralists. However, according to Wik, where there ... is conflict in the exercise of those rights, native title rights are subordinate to those of the pastoral leaseholder. The land rights movement is connected inextricably to the land based nature of Aborigi...

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... make farming possible. If there was one thing that acted as a set back to farming it was the European animals brought over during the first exploration. "A large proportion of Australia's native animal species exist nowhere else in the world" (Encarta). From the ever so popular kangaroo to the strange-looking emu, Australia has quite a unique group of creatures. However, when the ... is a country filled with everything, from history to modernization, from deep oceans to dry deserts, this country is well rounded and proves to be worthy enough to be given the title, the "Land Down Under."...

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... free. They also believed that natural resources might be claimed and a few believed that they didn't have the right to any land. The Mabo decision triggered the creation of the Native Title Bill. The bill set straight the details of the land ownership. The main feature of the law was to recognise land rights for people who own freehold property and also ... ...

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