Pastoral Leases are agreements under the Commonwealth of Australia that allow for the use of Crown land by farmers, etc. Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is the sixth-largest country in the world, the only country to occupy an entire continent, and the largest in the region of Australasia/Oceania. ... In the United Kingdom and its predecessors, Crown land is designated land belonging to the Crown, the equivalent of an entailed estate that passed with the monarchy and could not be alienated from it. ... Farmer spreading grasshopper bait in his alfalfa field. ...
The leases considered in the Wik case, though, were not leases in the ordinary sense.
Many pastoralleases covered areas of marginal lands that were only suitable for open-range grazing, and pastoralists depended on the local Aboriginal community for labour.
These pastoralleases reserved so many rights of entry that it could not be said that the leaseholder was given the right to exclusive possession.
Pastoralleases had their beginning in Western Australia in the 1880s when graziers from New South Wales overlanded cattle into the East Kimberleys and Western Australians took sheep into the Pilbara and the Gascoyne.
Where pastoralleases lie along the coast, there should be a strip excised from the lease sufficient to allow access along the coast according to the topography.
Although the consent of a pastorallease holder is required under the Land Administration Act 1997 Section 64 (3a) we believe this consent should be in respect to an appropriate route for the access.
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