Commonwealth v Yunupingu

Commonwealth v Yunupingu, also known as the Gumatj compensation claim or simply Gumatj, is a judicial decision of the High Court of Australia relating to Indigenous native title and Australian constitutional interpretation, decided on 12 March 2025. The High Court judges agreed with a previous Federal Court decision relating to a claim by the Gumatj clan on the Gove Peninsula in the Northern Territory. The court held that actions of the Commonwealth Government taken before 1975 could give rise to liability for compensation under the Native Title Act 1993, where invalid acquisitions of property had contravened the "just terms" guarantee in Section 51(xxxi) of the Australian Constitution.