List of Australian native title court cases

Native title in Australia is decided principally by the High Court and the Federal Court.

Year	Case	Court	Comment
1971	Milirrpum v Nabalco Pty Ltd	Supreme Court (NT)	Overruled by the High Court in Mabo v Queensland (No 2)
1982	Koowarta v Bjelke-Petersen	High Court	The Racial Discrimination Act 1975 was a valid law
1988	Mabo v Queensland (No 1)	High Court	Queensland attempt to abolish native title was invalid as inconsistent with the Racial Discrimination Act 1975
1989	Harper v Minister for Sea Fisheries [1989] HCA 47, (1989) 168 CLR 314	High Court
1992	Mabo v Queensland (No 2)	High Court	Rejected the doctrine of terra nullius and that indigenous land rights continued to exist in Australia
1996	Wik Peoples v Queensland	High Court	Native title rights could co-exist with statutory pastoral leases
1998	Fejo v Northern Territory [1998] HCA 58, (1998) 195 CLR 96	High Court	Native title was completely extinguished by a grant of freehold title
1999	Yanner v Eaton [1999] HCA 53, (1999) 201 CLR 351	High Court	Upheld the right to hunt as a part of native title rights
1999	Commonwealth v Yarmirr	High Court	Upheld non-exclusive native title rights to the sea and sea bed
2002	Western Australia v Ward	High Court	Native title is a bundle of rights, which may be extinguished one by one
2002	Yorta Yorta v Victoria	High Court	Upheld a finding that the "tide of history" had "washed away" traditional laws and customs and that the native title claim failed
2003	Neowarra v State of Western Australia [2003] FCA 1402	Federal Court
2005	Sampi v Western Australia [2005] FCA 777	Federal Court
2005	Wotjobaluk, Jaadwa, Jadawadjali, Wergaia and Jupagulk Peoples v Victoria	Federal Court	First successful native title claim in south-eastern Australia
2007	Gumana v Northern Territory [2007] FCAFC 23	Federal Court (Full Court)
2008	Bodney v Bennell (Noongar)	Federal Court (Full Court)	Whether native title continues to exist in and around Perth
2013	Akiba v Commonwealth	High Court	Licensing of fishing activates did not extinguish the relationship of the people to the land nor extinguish the native title right to take fish