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THE ABORIGINAL LAND RIGHTS (Northern Territory) Act 1976 (ALRA) has very little in common with the Native Title Act other than the fact that they are both pieces of Commonwealth legislation, but in the contemporary national debate on Indigenous affairs land ownership under ALRA is frequently merged with or equated to "native title".
This is unfortunate. While native title continues to linger in a sort of limbo of legal uncertainty (although it is now clear that a freehold grant extinguishes native title absolutely and that to the extent of any conflict residual Indigenous interests will yield to any other Crown-granted interest), there is no doubt at all in ...