1. land rights movement - Aborig.
"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...
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...
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,...
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." ...
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...