This paper provides a stocktake of key outcomes achieved to date and an estimate of how long it will take to finalise native title claims, an assessment of the main obstacles to resolving claims, and an analysis of an approach which all participants could take to resolve the remaining claims and those to be made...

Since its establishment in 1994 the Tribunal has developed a body of practices to mediate native title claims. Substantially these practices follow an orthodox model of mediation, however a range of intervention strategies has emerged which relate specifically to the mediation of native title claims and reflect conditions that are particular to this type of...