The High Court has ordered the Northern Territory government to pay 2.5 million dollars compensation to a group of native title holders in what's being described as the biggest land rights decision since Mabo. The sum was awarded over dozens of acts by the NT government between 1980 and 1996 which were found to have "impaired or extinguished" native title rights. The payment to claimants acting for the Ngaliwurru and Nungali people from Timber Creek includes money for economic loss, cultural loss and interest payments.
