The story of the South West Native Title Settlement

The South West Native Title Settlement is the largest native title settlement in Australian history. It affects around 30,000 Noongar people and encompasses approximately 200,000 square kilometres in the South West. Harry Hobbs and George Williams of the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales have described the Settlement as 'Australia's First Treaty'. This is the story of the Noongar people's fight to have their native title rights recognised in the south west, which resulted in the South West Native Title Settlement. This Settlement formally recognises that, since time immemorial, the Noongar people have maintained a living cultural, spiritual, familial and social relationship with Noongar boodja.