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	Wik Peoples v Queensland -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		The Wik Decision is a decision of the (additional info and facts about High Court of Australia) High Court of Australia in Wik Peoples v.
		The State of Queensland in December 1996, following a case brought by the Wik peoples of (A peninsula in Queensland in northeastern Australia between the Gulf of Carpenteria and the Coral Sea) Cape York Peninsula in North (A state in northeastern Australia) Queensland.
		The Wik Decision holds that native title might co-exist on pastoral leases, but the rights of pastoral leaseholders prevail over any inconsistent rights that native title holders might have.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/wik_peoples_v_queensland.htm (317 words)

	Decision
		Decision theory Decision theory is an interdisciplinary area of study, related to and of interest to practitioners in ps...
		The Valley of Decision The Valley of Decision is a Jessica Tandy.
		Wik Decision The Wik Decision is a decision of the indigenous people who can prove a connection to the land may have rig...
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/decision.html (279 words)

	ipedia.com: Mabo Article
		The effective result of this judgement was to invalidate the declaration of terra nullius, or "empty land" which had been pronounced at the time of British colonisation in 1788, and to recognise a form of native title.
		The implications of this decision are still being determined, but there is no doubt that it was a decision that shifted the political, legal and social landscape of Australia.
		The action which brought about the decision had been led by Eddie Mabo of the Meriam people (from the Murray Islands of the Torres Strait).
	www.ipedia.com /mabo.html (319 words)

	Articles - Mabo v Queensland (No 2) (1992) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		The action which brought about the decision had been led by Eddie Mabo, David Passi and James Rice, all of the Meriam people (from the Murray Islands in the Torres Strait).
		The decision was based on the findings of fact made by Justice Moynihan of the Supreme Court of Queensland: that the Murray Islanders had a strong sense of relationship to the islands and regarded the land as theirs.
		The decision recognised that the indigenous population had a pre-existing system of law, which, along with all rights subsisting thereunder, would remain in force under the new sovereign except where specifically modified or extinguished by legislative or executive action.
	www.centralairconditioners.net /articles/Mabo_v_Queensland_(No_2) (774 words)

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