Among the most prominent participants in the public debate over Wik has been the author of this text, Frank Brennan, a Jesuit priest and lawyer who has long argued for Aboriginal land rights.

Australian High Court's Wik judgment set in motion a debate on aboriginal land rights that would dominate Australian politics for over a year and produce extraordinary emotion in the community and in the federal parliament. Among the most prominent participants in the pubic debate over Wik was Frank Brennan, a Jesuit priest and lawyer who had long argued for Aboriginal land rights. The Wik Debate demonstrates how the government's native title legislation could have been modified to benefit all the major interest groups.