Native Title is the recognition in Australian law that Indigenous people have a system of law and ownership of their land that pre-dates European settlement.
Native Title may exist in areas such as:
Vacant crown land
Some national parks, forests and public reserves
Some types of pastoral leases
Beaches, oceans, seas, reefs, lakes, rivers, creeks, swamps and other waters that are not privately owned.
Native title cannot take away anyone else's valid rights, including private ownership of homes, holding a pastoral lease or having a mining licence.
Where Native Title rights and other rights of another person conflict, the rights of the other person always prevail.