Native title found to exist over sea areas in Gulf of Carpentaria

The rights recognised include: the right to fish, hunt and gather living and plant resources and the right to hunt and take turtle and dugong in the inter-tidal zone and surrounding waters for personal, domestic or non-commercial communal consumption; the right to take and consume fresh drinking water from fresh water springs in the inter-tidal zone; the right to access the land and waters seaward of the high water line for religious or spiritual purposes; and to access sites of spiritual or religious significance