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ORIC Spotlight On - Australia's biggest native title settlement clears final hurdle

04 February 2021
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Group photo of people, some with their arms in the air on the steps outside the Parliament of Western Australia.

Find out more about the achievements of the Noongar on this historic settlement.

A recent decision by the High Court has triggered the largest native title settlement in Australian history.

This settlement includes 200,000 square kilometres of the south west of Western Australia and is the result of years of combined effort by the six Noongar groups:  Ballardong, Gnaala Karla Booja, South West Boojarah, Wagyl Kaip & Southern Noongar, Whadjuk and Yued.

Continue reading about this historic achievement of the Noongar in this month’s Spotlight On from the Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations (ORIC).