Recent Native Title experience includes:
Brisbane Airport Corporation
Advising Brisbane Airport Corporation on all
native title and cultural heritage issues associated with its parallel runway
project, including successfully negotiating agreements with two traditional
landowner groups.
Xstrata Coal Wandoan Project
Advising Xstrata on all native title and cultural
heritage issues associated with its proposed Wandoan Coal mine, a large
greenfields coal mine site in the Surat Basin area of Queensland.
Kansai Electric Power Company
Advised Kansai Electric Power Company (a major
Japanese electricity supplier) on an agreement for the supply of LNG from
Woodside's Pluto gas field on the North West Shelf. Allens advised on Australian
law issues, including the heritage risk issues associated with the project,
given the location of the development on the Burrup Peninsula, recently included
on Australia's National Heritage List due to the ancient rock art in the area.
Stanwell Corporation wind power generation
Advised on native title issues
affecting access to water for this wind turbine development in south-east
Victoria.
Paradise Dam
Negotiated a series of native title agreements relating to
Burnett Water's Paradise Dam project in Queensland, including advising on the
first use of the specific Queensland project legislation allowing the compulsory
acquisition of native title for infrastructure projects of this type.
Fitzroy to Gladstone water pipeline
Advising the Gladstone Area Water Board on
all native title and cultural heritage issues associated with the Fitzroy to
Gladstone water pipeline project.
Amendments to legislation
Advised Rio Tinto Aluminium and Rio Tinto Coal
Australia on the introduction of the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act in
Queensland, including making submissions on Rio Tinto's behalf.
North South Bypass Tunnel
Advised a consortium on native title issues
associated with their successful bid to build, operate and maintain the A$2
billion North South Bypass Tunnel road project in Brisbane.
Port of Newcastle
Advised the financiers to the Newcastle Coal Infrastructure
Group on native title issues related to the A$1.55 billion project financing of
a third coal export terminal for the Port of Newcastle, an important long-term
infrastructure investment that will significantly increase the export capacity
of the Hunter Valley coal chain.
Wik litigation
Represented a commercial party in this landmark litigation
before the High Court and continued to represent the client in subsequent
negotiations with the Indigenous Wik people.
Sunshine Gas
Advised Sunshine Gas on native title and cultural heritage issues
relating to the proposed development of an LNG plant in Central Queensland.
