Editing Native title in Australia (section)

===Wik and 1998 amendment===
====1996 – Wik====
{{main|Wik Peoples v Queensland}}
After the Mabo decision it was uncertain as to whether the granting of [[pastoral lease]]s would extinguish native title. The [[Wik Decision]] in 1996 clarified the uncertainty. The court found that the statutory pastoral leases (which cover some 40% of the Australian land mass) under consideration by the court did not bestow rights of exclusive possession on the leaseholder. As a result, native title rights could co-exist, depending on the terms and nature of the particular pastoral lease. Where there was a conflict of rights, the rights under the pastoral lease would prevail over native title rights.<ref name="Wik HCA">{{cite AustLII|HCA|40|1996|litigants=Wik Peoples v The State of Queensland |parallelcite=(1996) 187 [[Commonwealth Law Reports|CLR]] 1 |date=23 December 1996 |courtname=[[High Court of Australia|High Court]]}}.</ref>

====1998 – ''Native Title Amendment Act 1998''====
{{main|Native Title Amendment Act 1998}}
The Wik decision led to amendments to the ''Native Title Act'' 1993 by the ''[[Native Title Amendment Act 1998]]''. This Act, also known as the "10 Point Plan", was introduced by the [[Howard government]]. The amendments substantially restricted Native Title by narrowing the right to negotiate and extinguishing Native Title on most pastoral and mining leases granted before 1994.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bartlett |first1=Richard |title=Native Title in Australia |date=1 December 2019 |publisher=LexisNexis Butterworths |location=Australia |isbn=9780409350920 |pages=56–57 |edition=4  |ref=NTIA}}</ref>