4 The Native Title Report 2024 One of the roles of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner (the Social Justice Commissioner) is to report ‘on the operation of the Native Title Act; and the effect of that Act on the enjoyment and exercise of human rights by Aboriginal persons and Torres Strait Islanders.’7 This is in addition to the Commissioner’s more general function of submitting reports to the Minister regarding ‘the enjoyment and exercise of human rights by Aboriginal persons and Torres Strait Islanders.’8 Until 2017, the Native Title Act required the Social Justice Commissioner to prepare a Native Title Report each year for federal Parliament. Until 2013, Native Title Reports were separate from the Social Justice Reports; between 2013 and 2016 they were combined in one annual publication. Following legislative amendments, the Native Title Report is no longer required to be tabled annually.9 The last Native Title Report was completed by then Social Justice Commissioner Mick Gooda in 2016.10 This is my first separate Native Title Report as Social Justice Commissioner, although native title, land rights, cultural rights and a raft of related rights have been discussed extensively throughout my Wiyi Yani U Thangani project and the report of the project in 2020. Australian Human Rights Commission 17