Land Rights
Submitted by madnotes on May 14, 2008
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Land Rights
At the time of the British colonization the land of Australia was generally considered to be terra nullius, or inhabited by no one. What the invading British failed to realize was that the Indigenous people inhabiting the land had essentially set up their own systems of law and land ownership, but by 1879 the land had become property of the crown and the aboriginals were deprived of sovereignty.
By the Early twentieth Century it was thought that the Aboriginals were about to die out so the Commonwealth Government brought about a policy of segregation which resulted in forcibly removing of a lot of the Aboriginals from their traditional lands and moving them onto selected missions...
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