FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Gumana v Northern Territory of Australia [2005] FCA 50

CORRIGENDUM

GAWIRRIN GUMANA & ORS on behalf of the YARRWIDI GUMATJ and Other Groups v NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA and NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA and COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA and NORTHERN TERRITORY SEAFOOD COUNCIL INC and ARNHEM LAND ABORIGINAL LAND TRUST and TELSTRA CORPORATION LTD

NTD 6035 OF 2002

ARNHEM LAND ABORIGINAL LAND TRUST and NORTHERN LAND COUNCIL and GAWIRRIN GUMANA, & ORS On behalf of the Yarrwidi Gumatj and other groups v NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA and DIRECTOR OF FISHERIES (NT)

NTD 12 OF 2003

SELWAY J

7 FEBRUARY 2005 (CORRIGENDUM 22 FEBRUARY 2005)

ADELAIDE (HEARD IN YIRRKALA AND CANBERRA)

AND

CORRIGENDUM

In the Reasons of the Honourable Justice Selway delivered 7 February 2005 the following amendments are made:

            Cover page – delete Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act, 1976 (Cth) from Authorities where it is mentioned for the second time.

            Page 2 – delete Self Government Act (Act No 58 of 1978) from Legislation list.

Par 1 line 4 – insert the words ‘and from’ – should read ‘from the adjacent sea and from certain sites in the inter-tidal zone or in the sea’.

            Par 17 line 11 – delete the word ‘sport’ – should read ‘medical treatment and to compete in sporting matches and so on’.

            Par 34 line 5 – amend ‘respondent’s’ to ‘respondents’.

            Page 20 – Heading of last paragraph of quote – amend section number ‘7’ to read ‘74’.

            Par 121 line 2 – insert ‘:  see’ – should read ‘Crown’s radical title:  see Mabo’.

            Par 121 line 6 – amend ‘(“native title interests”)’ to read ‘(“native title rights”)’.

            Par 142 line 7 – delete ‘would’ – should read ‘which created inconsistent rights may be to “extinguish”.’

            Par 164 line 12 – insert the words ‘(as they did in this case)’ at the end of the sentence – should read ‘claims based on that evidence (as they did in this case)’.

            Par 180 line 12 – insert ‘)’ after 32-33 – should read ‘at 32-33)’.

            Par 207 part (b) line 8 – enclosed brackets should read ‘(e.g. an obligation to care for the land or an obligation to conduct or assist in particular ceremonies)’.

            Par 249 line 3 – amend the sentence to read ‘For the reasons there given’ in lieu of ‘For the reasons given there’.

            Par 250 line 8 – amend the spelling of ‘programe’ to ‘programme’.

            Par 253 line 5 – amend ‘can be used to refer to either recognition’ to read ‘can be used to refer either to recognition’.

            Par 253 line 6 – amend ‘or recognition’ to read ‘or to recognition’.

            Par 271 lines 2 and 3 – insert brackets – to read ‘(which is contained in a letter dated 2 November, 2004 from the solicitors for the fifth respondent to the Court)’.

            Par 275 part (c) line 5 – amend ‘of the rights of the all of the native title holders’ to read ‘of the rights of all of the native title holders’.

Associate

22 February 2005