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The Wik people were given access to their land after the High Court formalised the shared relationship between leases and native titles.
Reaction to the Decision
Although the Wik people may have gotten their traditional land, it caused outrage within the media. It was mistakenly believed that the Indigenous Australians had the ability to "claim people's backyards". This was not the intention of the decision.