At a special hearing of the Federal Court in the remote indigenous community of Aurukun on Thursday, the Wik and Wik Way peoples were granted title to 19,672 square kilometres of land south of Weipa.

Traditional owners, elders and directors of the Wik’s own native title body, Ngan Aak Kunvh, yesterday voted to sack the powerful umbrella organisation and “stand on its own feet’’. The decision ...