... ). Although these acts point towards the adoption of a policy of self determination, they do not provide the Aboriginal people the opportunity of self government (Lovatt 1993 139). Land rights are about land but for all indigenous people, and especially Australian Aborigines, it is more than this. It is everything that goes with the land (Mudge 1997 53) The High Court's decision in ... the Mabo case on 3 June 1992 rewrote the Australian common law and gave a massive boost to the struggle for the recognition of Aboriginal land rights. It handed down a decision that dismissed the European ...

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... Introduction United States law has used the doctrine of "discovery" to justify the takeover of Indian people and territory. In the same way Australian law has used the concept of "terra nullius," the legal myth that Australia had no previous owners. Today it is easy to see ... constitutional matters. Binnie gave one example: Indians had the right to surrender land. His statement was greeted with laughter, it was so absurd. The federal government had an "empty box" theory. A box of rights had been protected by section 35, but unfortunately the box was empty. Indians responded with ... s...

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... to the British culture and its ideologies is the second way in which colonialism has impacted on the health and well being of Aboriginals in Australia. Through methods such as government policies and the removal of aboriginals from ancestral land the radically different British culture was thrust upon indigenous Australians. The forced removal of aboriginals from their families (known as ... the stolen generation) on to reserves, mission stations and children into white families was a government policy aimed at purifying the nation in an attempt to both stunt the growth of full blood Abo...

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