Chelsea Griffin-Breen

Special Counsel | Brisbane

+61 7 3169 4779 cgriffin-breen@hwle.com.au

Chelsea is a Special Counsel undertaking native title, cultural heritage and related work on behalf of native title representative bodies, native title service providers, registered native title bodies corporate, native title holders, native title claimants, government agencies and departments and proponents. 

Chelsea’s native title experience includes drafting indigenous land use agreements, cultural heritage management plans and associated documents, progressing native title claimant applications to determination by negotiation, mediation of disputes and litigation and generally providing advice on the nature, existence and extinguishment of native title and the operation of the Native Title Act and cultural heritage legislation, including in relation to future act negotiations concerning native title. 

Chelsea is recognised by Doyle’s Guide to Australia’s leading lawyers as a Rising Star for 2017, 2018 and 2019 and as a recommended lawyer (Traditional Owner Representation) for the years 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, in the area of Native Title

Expertise

Experience

 

  • The traditional owners in the southern Gulf of CarpentariaAdvising in regard to two determinations of native title over land and waters comprising Crown leasehold, deed of grant in trust land, national park, Crown reserves and unallocated State land.
  • The traditional owners in the southern Gulf of CarpentariaAdvising in regard to two determinations of native title over land and waters comprising Crown leasehold.
  • The traditional owners in the southern Gulf of CarpentariaAdvising in regard to contested hearing involving issues of succession.
  • ClientsAdvising on various native title holding and claim groups in the negotiation of numerous native title agreements, CHMPs and ILUAs concerning major mining, gas and infrastructure projects in western Cape York, north-western Queensland, western Queensland and central Queensland.
  • Traditional owners and proponents throughout QueenslandAdvising in relation to mining, exploration, quarrying and renewables projects.