Editors --- "Report on the Operations of the Land Tribunal Established under the Torres Strait Islander Land Act 1991 (Qld) for the Year Ended 30 June 1998 - Digest" [1999] AUIndigLawRpr 11; (1999) 4(1) Australian Indigenous Law Reporter 135

Report on the Operations of the Land Tribunal Established under the Torres Strait Islander Land Act 1991 (Qld) for the Year Ended 30 June 1998

Queensland Land Tribunals

Brisbane 1998

This is the seventh annual report of the Tribunal. Unlike the Land Tribunal under the Aboriginal Land Act 1991 (Qld), membership remains confined to the Chairperson, Graeme Neate.

Indeed, it has not been a busy Tribunal:

8. To date no land has been declared to be available for claim under the Torres Strait Land Act 1991 (Qld). Consequently, no land claims have been referred by the Land Claims Registrar to the Tribunal.

It is not, therefore, surprising that some 27 native title claimant applications have been lodged in respect of land in the Torres Strait area. Four were subsequently withdrawn. Twenty one had been accepted by the National Native Title Tribunal at 30 June 1998 [15].