Aboriginal Australia When Australia was first settled in 1788 the international law of terra nullius was applied. ... At the time of settlement it was noted by Sir Joseph Banks that the land was indeed terra nullius as there was no way to communicate or negotiate with the small population of natives. Over the past century and indeed the last decade Australia's history is being rewritten with the rejection of the doctrine of terra nullius through the High Court. ... Even with the rejection of terra nullius, Australia was still settled as a colony by a State under international law....

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"Describe and explain the changes that have occurred to the rights and freedoms of aboriginal people between 1900 and today" Between the 1900 and today, there have been many significant changes to the rights and freedoms of Aboriginal people. Some of the main issues being the stolen genera...

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It handed down a decision that dismissed the European myth of "terra nullius," an empty land. "Terra nullius" means a land without the ordered structure of society that meant 'civilisation' (Mudge 1997 54). ...

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Eddie Mabo was a fighter for the land rights of Aboriginals. During the 70's, the Queensland Government denied the Meriam Islanders the use of their land. Eddies Mabo led his people into court challenging the Queensland Government in 1982. He stated that his people had inhabited the Island long befo...

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In the legal theory of the formative years, the land known as Terra Australis or Terra Incognito was regarded as 'terra nullius' - a territory belonging to no one. ... Before 1992 the courts generally accepted that the classification of the colony as 'settled' was a matter of law which was not to be questioned upon a reconsideration of the historical facts, although these facts have been found to be at variance with the legal doctrine that Australia was 'terra nullius'. ... In its 1992 decision in Mabo v QLD (No 2), the High Court rejected the doctrine that Austra...

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When the British arrived in Australia, they declared the land Terra Nullius. ... Even though the notion of Terra Nullius was upheld and native title rights were at this point denied, Judge Blackburn did acknowledge the claimants [the aboriginal people] ritual and economic use of the land and recognized that they had an adequate system of law." ...

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We live in a country that is not rightfully ours, a country that generations before us have stolen, a land that belongs to others, a land that belongs to the Indigenous people of Australia. The Aboriginals have occupied Australia for thousands of years and the land is an integral part of their life,...

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Before embarking on the analysis of Keating's speech and Rudd's speeches, there is significant historical context and facts that influenced the Redfern speech and the national apology. 1967; Australians voted overwhelmingly to amend the constitution to include Aboriginal people in the census and allow the Commonwealth to create laws for them. 1975; the Racial Discrimination Act is implemented making racial discrimination unlawful in Australia. 1991; Aboriginal Reconciliation Act put in place, promoting a process of reconciliation between Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders and the...

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The Europeans began to settle Australia on the 26th of January as a convict colony in 1788. At this time, Aboriginals had already inhabited the land for 50,000 or more years. In 1788, there were an estimated 300,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders living in Australia (www.schoolnet.ca/aborigi...

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Social movements are brought on by various forms of civil disobedience which Thoreau (cited in Goodman, 2002) describes as a "responsibility, not a right in the face of injustice". Thoreau, publisher of Civil Disobedience 1849, was one of the first advocates for civil disobedience, not just in wri...

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Eliza Berry: "And brilliant record show Whose names but said, our children stand And noble deeds recall! Farewell! Ye heroes of our land, Ye brave explorers, all!" Each and every Australian should be so proud of our wonderful, brave and heroic explorers of the Eighteenth and N...

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Crime, criminality and colonialism are all intricately tied together in the Australian Indigenous context. To understand the nature of crime and criminality as it exists today one must understand the context of the history of colonialism and how it relates to both past and present crime. The underly...

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