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Justice Wilcox's bombshell.(Law)(Excerpt)
MURRAY WILCOX'S last decision as a Federal Court judge came as "a bombshell right in the centre of Perth"--in the words of Noel Pearson, who was probably as surprised as everyone else. Given the pattern of previous native title determinations, few could have expected a successful claim over a metropolitan area settled by non-Aborigines over 175 years ago.
Western Australia could now face massive compensation claims for actions that may have extinguished native title since the Commonwealth's Racial Discrimination Act 1975, such as releasing vacant Crown land for suburban expansion. But the media was delighted with the Single Noongar decision, portraying ...
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