Jack Faine

Jack recently spent two and a half years on secondment at a Native Title Representative Body in Western Australia, where he assisted on several matters of strategic importance, including:

• assisting in preserving evidence of cultural loss of senior knowledge holders in a number of matters, including the matter that culminated in Karajarri Traditional Lands Association Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC [2024] FCA 1114;
• working on compensation claims for the loss or extinguishment of native title rights and interests, including in respect of water licences; and
• advising on the availability of judicial review to protect and/or enhance groups’ native title rights and interests.

Jack is passionate about representing and assisting First Nations groups and communities to use the law to their advantage.

Prior to studying law, Jack worked in schools in remote Western Australia.

Jack is on the board of Overland literary journal.