Indefeasibility of title and acknowledgement of country

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  [30] Thirdly, the principle of indefeasibility is not circumvented because Ballina Shire Council has acknowledged that the Ballina Coast and Hinterland is “the traditional Nyangabul country of the Bundjalung Nation…whose custodianship of the Ballina Shire area dates back many thousands of generations”. Recognition of such custodianship is entirely fitting, but it does not displace the statutory principle of indefeasibility.
   

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