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• Indigenous owned or controlled land comprised 21.5 per cent of the combinedland area of very remote areas of Australia in 2006, but only 0.1 per cent of innerregional areas and 0.2 per cent of major cities (figure 11.3.2).• Nearly all (98.6 per cent) Indigenous owned or controlled land is in very remoteareas of Australia (table 11A.3.2).• The bulk of Indigenous owned or controlled land is in the NT (49.1 per cent),WA (29.6 per cent) and SA (16.5 per cent) (table 11A.3.1).• Indigenous owned or controlled land makes up 44.8 per cent of the NT, but lessthan 1 per cent of the area of NSW, Victoria, Tasmania and ACT(table 11A.3.1).• Between 2005 and 2006, there was little or no change to the proportions ofIndigenous owned or controlled land.• Between 1995 and 2006, the ILC acquired 201 properties in remote, rural andurban locations covering more than 5.5 million hectares, at a total cost of nearly$170 million (see table 11A.3.11 for a map of the ILC’s land acquisitionactivity).Determinations of native titleThe majority of native title applications that have been lodged by Indigenous peopleare yet to be determined by the Federal Court of Australia. As at March 2007,540 active native title claimant applications were in the system, and 91 native titledeterminations had been made (NNTT unpublished).Data are not readily available to compare areas with native title giving exclusivepossession of land with areas where native title may have been partiallyextinguished.11.32 OVERCOMINGINDIGENOUSDISADVANTAGE 2007