Who owns Australia? | Australia news | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/ng-interactive/2021/may/17/who-owns-australia
Who owns the Australian outback is a vexed question. The true answer is First Nations peoples, whose ownership stems back 60,000 years. The legal answer is more complex. It’s a mess of titles – freehold, pastoral leases, crown leases, public land, native title and land held by Aboriginal trusts.
And no two jurisdictions store or share that data in the same way.