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OUTLINE THE IMPORTANCE OF THE FOLLOWING FOR THE LAND RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- MABO DECISION
- Overturned the notion of
‘Terra Nullius’, deeming
it legally invalid
- This held imense significance because the judgements
of the high court implemented the legal doctrine in to
australian law that recognized that traditional rights and
land ownership of the torres straight islander people
- 1992
- Overturned the notion of
‘Terra Nullius’, deeming
it legally invalid
- NATIVE TITLE
- The Mabo decision influenced the federal government to
make a statute which would create a process governing
future claims of Native Title. that is, it created a framework
for both the protection and recognition of native title.
- 1993
- The recognition that Aboriginal people
who occupy land on which their families
have lived continuously for hundreds of
years are the owners of that land
- Important step for Aboriginal
self‐determination
- The Mabo decision influenced the federal government to
make a statute which would create a process governing
future claims of Native Title. that is, it created a framework
for both the protection and recognition of native title.
- WIK DECISION
- 1996
- The wik people
claimed native title
over their sacred and
traditional land in
Queensland
- The movement determined that
native tittle could co-exist with
currently esatblished pastoral
leasing for cattle grazing.
- The decision was significant becasue it
recognized the Wik people right to access
their traditional lands
- 1996
- INTRO: Land rights are of critical importance in relation to
Aboriginal Spirituality because the Dreaming is
inextricably connected with the land
- CONCLUSION: Therefore, the various land rights movements,
the Mabo and Wik Decision and Native Tittle Act,
withheld immense significance through its overarching impact. In
each case the traditional custodians of the land where re
connected and symolically regranted land, in which their traidition
culture and spirituality emmanates
- The land rights movements was a way of
attempting to repiar the damadges done
thorugh dispossesion, as evident in the Stolen
generations, Separation form the land, and
separation from Kinship groups
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