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Article: Fed: Yorta people welcome Chief Justice s support
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- AAP General News (Australia)
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- February 8, 2001
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AAP General News (Australia)
02-08-2001
Fed: Yorta people welcome Chief Justice s support
MELBOURNE, Feb 8 AAP - Yorta Yorta representatives today welcomed Federal Court Chief
Justice Michael Black's support for their native title claim, despite the majority full
court decision rejecting their appeal.
Monica Morgan, coordinator of the Yorta Yorta claim, said Chief Justice Black's dissenting
opinion offered a glimmer of hope for her people.
"The Chief Justice could see the argument, could feel the need that there needs to
be a change within this country," Ms Morgan said outside the Federal Court in Melbourne.
Ms Morgan said her people had not yet decided whether they would launch an ...