The High Court is sitting in the Northern Territory for the first time in history to hear a native title compensation case hailed as one of "the biggest test cases in Indigenous rights since Mabo".
The case will set a precedent about how to calculate native title compensation, as these provisions in the Native Title Act 1993 have never before been tested in the High Court.
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