The Wik and Wik Way peoples have won their final battle for native title rights to traditional lands in far north Queensland.
At a special hearing of the Federal Court in the remote indigenous community of Aurukun, the Wik and Wik Way peoples were granted title to more than 19-thousand square kilometres of land south of Weipa.
The consent determination stems from the High Court's landmark Wik decision in 1996, which found native title could co-exist with pastoral leases.
The decision was reached following negotiations between the claimants, pastoralists, the state government and mining companies.
