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Court of Appeal rules Lake Victoria traditional owner has right to make historic compensation claim
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Maraura Paakantyi elder Dorothy Lawson has ancestral claims to the area around Lake Victoria.
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She might not be a household name like Eddie Mabo, but Dorothy Lawson has spent years quietly fighting for the right to have the ownership of her traditional homeland legally recognised.
WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains images of people who have died.
Key points:
Dorothy Lawson s grandparents were not compensated in 1922 when SA took charge of Lake Victoria
The Court of Appeal ruled that any rights the Lawsons had were converted into a claim for compensation when their title was extinguished ....

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