The Court said that native title could be possessed by people who contrived to use the land and where traditional connection with the land had been substantially maintained, but the Court also said that the crown grant which gave an interest in the land that was inconsistent with a native title claim, would extinguish that native title. ... In 1993 WA then passed a Land (Titles and Traditional Usage) Act, This; a) extinguished native title and gave "rights of traditional usage with regards to the land": and b) Ministers could suspend these lesser rights under various circumstances. At the sam...

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