The Land Rights movement are of critical importance in relation to Aboriginal spirituality‚ as it acknowledges and establishes kayini/ the inextricable connection between Indigenous people and their land‚ in which they have lost due to the European settlement. Hence‚ it is the attempt of Indigenous people reclaiming possession of their land which forms their sense of identity and purpose. Native Title is a legal term recognising the rights of Indigenous peoples and s to use and occupy their lands
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How do ongoing Government/Indigenous relationships illustrate history’s relevance to contemporary Australian politics? The current political scene in Australia has the following Indigenous aspects that have been issues for Australians for many years. These are: land rights‚ education‚ employment‚ health and breakdown of culture. These are the main matters of concern politically. ‘So it is like people say‚ “Trust me. I’m from the government.” Well‚ it doesn’t carry any water with our mob’
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Question 1 a) The legal fiction upon which Australia was founded refers to the British doctrine‚ “terra nullius”. The phrase translates to “land without ownership”. When Australia was founded‚ even though the colonisers acknowledged the presence of the Indigenous they considered the Aboriginals too primitive to be actual owners. The Aboriginals were considered too primitive with no identifiable hierarchy or political structure. This legal fiction had a significant impact on Australia with the
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The doctrine of discovery and terra nullius narratives are at the forefront of legitimizing sole sovereign control over the land. Europeans initially used the treaty negotiations as documents that “proved” the Indigenous people ceded right and title of the land to the Crown and documented an alternate history in ways that benefited the colonial project. Terra nullius was used to prove that the land was barren and empty and that there were no civilizations that existed upon the land and the doctrine
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markers‚ which cannot exhibit their ownership of the land‚ captain Cook denied the existence of those first inhabitants of Australia (Skwirk Online Education‚ n.d.). He claimed that the land was belong to no one which refers to the doctrine of ‘Terra Nullius’‚ and that it was free for Britain to colonize (Skwirk Online Education‚ n.d.). This conclusion caused the loss of land rights of Indigenous Australians as well as began the long period that Indigenous Australians were unfairly treated by white
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were already on the land‚ living with political and legal and social systems in a community. Aboriginal land was taken over by British colonists‚ saying the land belonged to no one‚ which is referred to as‚ “Terra Nullius”‚ but was then taken over by white people. In 1937‚ the Government held a conference on Aboriginal matters‚ which agreed that Aboriginal people should be introduced into the wider white population. The aim of this was to make the aboriginal race
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The Dreaming lies at the heart of Aboriginal spirituality and hence is fundamental to all Aboriginal culture and societies. The land is central to Aboriginal Dreaming and therefore to Aboriginal spirituality. The Aboriginal people are connected to their land through their ancestral spirits‚ they believe they came from the land‚ share their spirit with the land and return to their ancestral spirits when they die. The Land Rights Movement formed due to the desire of the Aboriginal people to gain access
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Native Title. Eddie Mabo was an Indigenous Aboriginal man who established the Mabo decision of June 1992. This decision provided the recognition that Australia was under British settlement in 1788‚ hence going completely against the concept of Terra Nullius. It was this dramatic result‚ which contributed towards the establishment of the Native Title. Native Title became part of the known laws of Australia‚ which meant that Mabo’s observance provided all Aboriginal people with justice and equality
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The British Colonisation of Australia Timeline: The Aboriginal Australian species originated from Africa approximately 200‚000 years ago and migrated to Asia 70‚000 years ago then continued to Australia 50‚000 years ago. Before 1788 only the Indigenous people of Australia - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders‚ populated Australia. In 1788 Aboriginal people inhabited the whole of Australia and Torres Strait Islanders lived on the islands between Australian and Papua New Guinea
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have brought China and Japan into a bitter dispute for many decades. With regard to the real question of who owns sovereignty over the islands‚ the two claimants can not come to terms on several critical issues‚ such as whether the islands were terra nullius when Japan claimed sovereignty in 1895‚ whether Japan returned the islands to China after the Japanese defeat in WWII‚ and how their maritime boundary in the East China Sea should be demarcated according to international law. There is no ready
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