Receiving native title benefits – what it means for your tax obligations
Native title benefits are paid to recognise the rights and interests Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have with their land and waters, which comes from their traditional laws and customs, under Australian law.

Tax and native title benefits
On 28 June 2013, Parliament passed laws that affect you if you are an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person or an Indigenous holding entity and you receive a native title benefit. The new law says certain payments or non-cash benefits you receive in relation to your native title rights are not subject to tax, including capital gains tax. These laws apply retrospectively to cover native title benefits received from 1 July 2008.
These changes mean that:
native title benefits are now considered non-assessable non-exempt (NANE) income and are therefore not subject to income tax (however, income earned from investing a native title benefit is assessable as income)
any capital gains or losses made from transferring native title rights to an Indigenous holding entity or Indigenous person are disregarded
any capital gains or losses made from surrendering or cancelling native title rights are disregarded.
so..
we have two laws in Australia..
one for the abbo's and/or those who identify as Abbo...
and one for the rest of us who get screwed over again and again and again on Tax payments.. ffs..