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Future Act Determination Details

NSW - Future Act Determination - NF2021/0007

NF2021/0007​​
NNTTA 26 (31 March 2022)
Future act determination
New South Wales  
Ms Nerida Cooley (Member)
Gomeroi People (NC2011/006)
(native title party)
- and -
Jonathan Downes
(grantee party)
- and -
State of New South Wales
(Government party)
31/03/2022
An inquiry into a future act determination application
Future Act - May be done
Representatives of the native title party: James MacLeod and Maeve Parker, NTSCORP Limited

Representative of the grantee party: William Oxby, Johnson Winter & Slattery

Representative of the Government party: Caitlin Fegan, Crown Solicitor’s Office
​Native title – future act – s 35 application for determination –  application for Ministerial consent – whether grantee party has negotiated in good faith – grantee party has negotiated in good faith – s 39 criteria considered – effect of act on native title rights and interests – effect of act on way of life, culture and traditions – effect of act on freedom of access – effect of act on sites or areas of particular significance – interests, proposals, opinions or wishes of native title party – economic or other significance of act – public interests in doing of act – determination that act may be done​
Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (NSW); Mining Act 1992 (NSW); National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974 (NSW); Native Title Act 1993 (Cth) s 26; Native Title Act 1993 (Cth) s 29; Native Title Act 1993 (Cth) s 30; Native Title Act 1993 (Cth) s 31; Native Title Act 1993 (Cth) s 35; Native Title Act 1993 (Cth) s 36; Native Title Act 1993 (Cth) s 38; Native Title Act 1993 (Cth) s 39; Native Title Amendment Act 1998 (Cth); Native Title (Right to Negotiate (Exclusion)—NSW Land) Determination No. 1 of 1996; Native Title (Right to Negotiate (Inclusion)—NSW Land) Approval No. 1 of 1996;
Albert Little & Others on behalf of Badimia/Western Australia/Lake Moore Gypsum Pty Ltd [2012] NNTTA 56 (‘Little v Lake Moore Gypsum’)

Atlas Iron Pty Ltd and Another v Nyamal Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC [2021] NNTTA 7 (‘Atlas Iron’)

Australian Potash Limited and Another v Kalman Murphy & Ors on behalf of Waturta [2021] NNTTA 46 (‘Australian Potash v Murphy’)

Cheedy and Others v Western Australia and Others [2011] FCAFC 100; (2011) 194 FCR 562 (‘Cheedy’)

Drake Coal Pty Ltd and Another v Smallwood and Others [2012] NNTTA 9; (2012) 257 FLR 276 (‘Drake Coal v Smallwood’) 

FMG Pilbara Pty Ltd v Cox and Others [2009] FCAFC 49; (2009) 175 FCR 141 (‘Cox’)

Hale and Others v Western Australia and Another [2015] FCA 560; (2015) 233 FCR 96 (‘Hale’)

Jax Coal Pty Ltd v Smallwood and Others [2011] NNTTA 46; (2011) 260 FLR 99 (‘Jax Coal v Smallwood’)

Marine Produce Australia Limited and Another v Mayala People [2018] NNTTA 28 (‘Marine Produce v Mayala’)

Minister for Lands, State of Western Australia and Another v Buurabalayji Thalanyji Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC [2014] NNTTA 85 (‘Minister for Lands v Thalanyji’)

Minister for Lands, State of Western Australia/Marjorie May Strickland and Anne Joyce Nudding on behalf of the Maduwongga People/Brian and Dave Champion, Cadley and Dennis Sambo, George Wilson and Clem Donaldson for their respective (Gubrun) families/Dorothy Dimer, Ollan Dimer and Henry Richard Dimer on behalf of Mingarwee (Maduwonjga People) [1997] NNTTA 31 (‘Strickland’)

Muccan Minerals Pty Ltd and Another v Allen and Others on behalf of Njamal [2018] NNTTA 24 (‘Muccan Minerals’)

Placer (Granny Smith) Pty Ltd and Another v Western Australia and Others [1999] NNTTA 521; (1999) 163 FLR 87 (‘Placer v Western Australia’)


Rusa Resources (Australia) Pty Ltd v Sharon Crowe and Others on behalf of Gnulli [2018] NNTTA 81 (‘Rusa Resources v Gnulli’)

Sheffield Resources Ltd and Another v Charles and Others on behalf of Mount Jowlaenga Polygon #2 [2018] NNTTA 48 (‘Sheffield’)

Stephen Christopher Purse v Guwa-Koa Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC and Another [2022] NNTTA 7 (‘Purse v GKAC’)

Strickland and Another v Minister for Lands for Western Australia and Others [1998] FCA 868; (1998) 85 FCR 303 (‘Strickland v Minister for Lands’)

Tritton Resources Pty Ltd and Another v Ngemba/Ngiyampaa, Wangaaypuwan and Wayilwan [2022] NNTTA 24 (‘Tritton Resources’)

Weld Range Metals Ltd v Western Australia and Others [2011] NNTTA 172; (2011) 258 FLR 9 (‘Weld Range Metals’)

Western Australia v Taylor and Another [1996] NNTTA 34; (1996) 134 FLR 211 (‘Western Australia v Taylor’)

Western Australia v Thomas and Others [1996] NNTTA 30; (1996) 133 FLR 124 (‘Western Australia v Thomas’)

Western Desert Lands Aboriginal Corporation (Jamukurnu – Yapalikunu)/Western Australia/Holocene Pty Ltd [2009] NNTTA 49 (‘Holocene’)

Xstrata Coal Queensland Pty Ltd & Ors/Mark Albury & Ors (Karingbal #2);Brendan Wyman & Ors (Bidjara People)/Queensland [2012] NNTTA 93 (‘Xstrata v Albury’)

Yellow Rock Resources Ltd and Others v Shay and Others on behalf of Yugunga-Nya People [2014] NNTTA 43 (‘Yellow Rock Resources’)​