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Minister for Aboriginal Affairs v Peko-Wallsend Ltd

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 January 2025

Paul Wentworth
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Abstract

Aboriginals – Land Rights – Administrative Law – Inquiry by Aboriginal Land Commissioner – Party not disclosing information to inquiry – Ex parte representations to Minister by party detrimentally affected – Failure to take into account relevant considerations – Obligation of Minister to have regard to exparte representation – Constructive knowledge of Minister of matters within his departmenrs knowledge – Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 (C’th) ss 11, 50

Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977 (C’th) s 5(2)(b).

Type
Research Article
Information
Federal Law Review , Volume 16 , Issue 4 , December 1986 , pp. 386 - 397
Copyright
Copyright © 1986 The Australian National University

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References

1 (1968) 66 ALR 299, 60 ALJR 560. High Court of Australia; Gibbs CJ, Mason, Brennan, Deane and Dawson JJ.

2 See J von Sturmer, “Aborigines in the Uranium Industry: Toward Self-Management in the Alligator Rivers Region? in Berndt, R M (ed) Aboriginal Sites, Rights and Resource Development (1982) 69Google Scholar, also P Carroll “Uranium and Aboriginal Land Interests in the Alligator Rivers Region” in Peterson, N and Langton, M (eds) Aborigines, Land and Land Rights (1983) 339.Google Scholar

3 Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977 (Cth), s 5(1 )(e).

4 Ibid s 5(2)(b).

5 (1985) 59 ALR 51.

6 Supra n 2.

7 s 50(1)(a)(i).

8 s 50(1)(a)(ii).

9 s 50(3)(b).

10 s11(1).

11 For a more detailed account of the facts and the evidence given on behalf of Peko see 66 ALR 299, 315-320 per Brennan J.

12 See s 40 of the Act.

13 See (1986) 66 ALR 200, 317-318 per Brennan J.

14 Ibid 320.

15 Pearce, DC (ed) Australian Administrative Law Bulletin (1986), 206.Google Scholar

16 The relevant pages of Mason J's judgment are supra n 13, 308-311.

17 Ibid 308, 321 per Brennan J; Sean Investments Ply Ltd v MacKellar (1981) 38 ALR 363, 375; CREEDNZ Inc v Governor-General [1981] I NZLR 172, 183, 196-197; Ashby v Minister of Immigration [1981] I NZLR 222, 225, 230, 232-233.

18 Supra n 13, 309; see Swan Hill Corporation v Bradbury (1937) 56 CLR 746, 757-758; Water Conservation and Irrigation Commission (NSW) v Browning (1947) 74 CLR 492, 505; R v Australian Broadcasting Tribunal; ex parte 2HD Ply Ltd (1979) 27 ALR 321.

19 Supra n 13, 309; see also Baldwin & Francis Ltd v Patents Appeal Tribunal [1959] AC 663, 693; Hanks v Minister of Housing and Local Government (1963) I QB 999, 1020; R v Chief Registrar of Friendly Societies; ex parte New Cross Building Society (1984) QB 227, 260.

20 Supra n 13, 325.

21 Ibid.

22 Supra n 13, 309; Associated Provincial Picture Houses v Wednesbury Corporation (1948)1 KB 223, 228.

23 lbid 309. Sean Investments Pty Ltd v Anderson; ex parte/pee-Air Pty (1985) 113 CLR 177, 2050; Elliott v Southwark London Borough Council (1976) I WLR 499 at 507; Pickwell v Camden London Borough Council (1983) QB 962, 990. RLD2.1

24 Supra n 13, 310. See per Lord Greene MR Wednesbury Corporation supra n 21, 230, 233-234.

25 Ibid; Parramatta City Council v Pestell (1972) 128 CLR 305, 327; Bread Manufacturers of NSWv Evans (1981) 56 ALJR 89, 96; 38 ALR 93, 106; Re Moore; ex parte Co-Operative Bulk Handling Ltd (1982) 56 ALJR 697; 41 ALR 221, 221-222; Hall and Co Ltd v Shureham-by-Sea Urban District Council (1964] I WLR 240,248, 255, R v Hillingdon London Borough Concil; Ex parte Royco Homes Ltd (1974) QB 720, 731-732; Newbury District Council v Secretary of State for the Environment (19811 AC 578, 599-600, 608. For recent Federal Court applications of s 5(2)(g) Judicial Review Act see Donelly v Telecom (1983) 6 ALD 134, 144; Prasad v Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (1968) 65 ALR 549; Willarra Ltd v McVeigh (1984) 54 ALR 65, 106-110, 57 ALR 344, 353. Alexandra Private Geriatric Hospital v Blewett (1985) 8 FLR 167.

26 Supra n 13, 310.

27 Supra n 13, 310-31 l.

28 Ibid and see 326-327 per Brennan J.

29 (1982) 44 ALR 63.

30 Ibid 67.

31 Ibid 91.

32 Agreed to by Gibbs CJ & Dawson J. Deane J agreed with Brennan J.

31 Supra n 13, 312.

34 Ibid 321-322.

35 Ibid 321-322.

36 Kioa v Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (1985) 62 ALR 321, 373 per Brennan J who takes up this idea in relation to natural justice.

37 “Special Interest” test propounded by Gibbs and Mason JJ in Australian Conservation Foundation Inc v Commonwealth (1980) 140 CLR 493, 530-531, 547-548. Onus v Alcoa of Australia Ltd (1981) 149 CLR 27, 35-36, 42-43, 44, 60-61, 68-69.

38 Supra n 13, 313.

39 Ibid 312.

40 Ibid, and see Mason J’s third proposition at 309.

41 Ibid 323.

42 [1935] I KB 249.

43 Ibid 272-273 quoted in full by Brennan J supra n I 3, 323.

44 Supra n 13, 324.

45 Ibid 313, 333.

46 Ibid 302.

47 Ibid 313.

48 Ibid 324-325.

49 Ibid

50 Ibid 325.

51 Ibid.

52 Ibid 325-326.

53 Ibid 326.

54 Ibid 309-310.

55 Ibid 328.

56 Ibid 329.

57 Ibid 325-326.

58 Ibid 326.

59 Ibid 327-329.

60 Ibid 320 reproduced by Brennan J.

61 Ibid 312.

62 Ibid 302.

63 [1980] 2 NZLR 130, 148.

64 See 59 ALR 51, 59 per Bowen CJ, per Sheppard J, 81 per Wilcox J. There have been a number of immigration cases where information has been withheld from a decision-maker by his department and the issue of constructive knowledge has arisen, Sezdirmezogliu v Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (1985) 8 FLR 167, 178-179 (per Toohey J) andSingh v Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs Federal Court of Australia 4/12/85 unreported decision of Wilcox J.

65 Supra n 13, 329, per Brennan J.

66 [1981] AC 75.

67 Ibid 95.

68 Supra n 65, 325 per Brennan J.