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• The 10-point Losers
  Uniya Focus No. 5, May 1997 (on AustLII)
• Co-existence: Negotiation and Certainty [Search]
  The Indigenous Position in Response to the Wik Decision and the Government's Proposed Amendmentsto the Native Title Act (1993). Prepared by the National Indigenous Working Group on Native Title (April 1997)
• Native Title Report - 1997: The Wik Case
  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner (RSJ Library on AustLII)
• Report of Inquiry into the Native Title Amendment Bill 1997 (Cth): Tenth Report of the Joint Committee on Native Title (1998) [Search]
  This amendment bill was tabled in response to the High Court's decision in Wik in 1996, which found that pastoral leases which do not grant exclusive possession, could co-exist with native title rights at common law (on Parliament of Austral website)
• The Ten Point Plan
  Government's proposed response to Wik decision. Appendix to Native Title Report 1997 by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner (RSJ Library on AustLII)
• The Wik Judgement
  Uniya Occasional Paper, Number 97, March 1997 (on AustLII)
• The Wik Peoples v The State of Queensland & Ors; The Thayorre People v The State of Queensland & Ors (1996) (CTH)
  High Court decide by majority (4-3) that particular pastoral leases issued in Qld did not reveal an intention to extinguish native title (on AustLII)
• Wik: the Aftermath and Implications [Search]
  Series of articles published in Forum (University of NSW Law Journal)