1. Crime and Colonialism in Indigenous Australians
It is the influences of British Law on Indigenous Australians post colonialism that have led to the genocide, oppression, racial discrimination, dispossession of land, high rates of incarceration and intergenerational trauma and disadvantages that have plague the Indigenous people of Australia for far too long. ... This simple act of claiming land that the British contested was 'unoccupied' has led to the devastating oppression of Indigenous Australians. ... In British law there is a legal distinction made between the acquisition of territory and land (Behrendt, 2009, p.6). This dis...
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