Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Overlapping native title claims for parts of the Pilbara region towns of Karratha, Dampier, Wickam, and Point Samson have been ...

Federal Court judge John Gilmour this week ended a legal bid by a neighbouring group, the Eastern Guruma people, to claim native title over about 700sqkm of land that for the past 13 years has ...

A native title claim by an Aboriginal group in the Pilbara, in north-west Western Australia, has been amended to cover a larger area. Last year, the Federal Court ordered that two Nyiyaparli ...

Federal Court hearings into an exclusive native title claim by a Pilbara Aboriginal group over a large section of mining land will continue, after the court this week upheld the rejection of a ...

A stunning map ... Native Title holders the right to local cultural practices, such as the right to live in the area, hunt, fish, gather food or teach law and custom on country. To claim Native ...

Native title claimants have won rights over a ... Mr Hawkins said he hoped the decision would pave the way for other claims in the Pilbara to be resolved by consent. Attorney-General Michael ...

Rio has now signed participation agreements with six native title claim groups in the Pilbara, including the Ngarluma, Kuruma Marthudundera, Puutu Kunti Kurrama & Pinikura, Nyiyaparli ...

Two of the lawyers behind the landmark claim ... in the Pilbara. “None of them are walking around like sheiks; some have reached a middle-class economic status, but it [native title] hasn ...

The Banjima people of the central Pilbara first made the native title claim over about 10,200 sq km of land in 1998 but were unable to reach an agreement with the government of Western Australia.

The 2017 decision gave the Roebourne-based Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation native title rights over 2700 square kilometres of land, exposing FMG to a potentially massive compensation claim.