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What was the first native peoples document to be recognised by law and what resulted from it?
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What was the first native peoples document to be recognised by law and what resulted from it?
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Yirrkala bark petition
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Correct on part 1 DD. What was the result?
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Half a century ago, the Yolngu people of northeast Arnhem Land took the bark from the trees and the ochre from the earth and built a bridge between two worlds.
On Wednesday the leaders of those two worlds came together in the community of Yirrkala to remember the 12 clan leaders who in 1963 sent two bark petitions to federal parliament.
The petitions called on parliament to reconsider its decision to excise 300 square kilometres of Arnhem Land for bauxite mining and to send a committee to speak to elders. The hopes of the petitioners were not realised. The excision was upheld and the mine went ahead. But the petitions would be seen as a pivotal moment in the struggle for land rights, starting a chain of events that would culminate three decades later in the Mabo judgment, which overturned the legal fiction of terra nullius, that the land was owned by noone.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...k-petitions-20130710-2pqfx.html#ixzz2a3gE34zd
On Wednesday the leaders of those two worlds came together in the community of Yirrkala to remember the 12 clan leaders who in 1963 sent two bark petitions to federal parliament.
The petitions called on parliament to reconsider its decision to excise 300 square kilometres of Arnhem Land for bauxite mining and to send a committee to speak to elders. The hopes of the petitioners were not realised. The excision was upheld and the mine went ahead. But the petitions would be seen as a pivotal moment in the struggle for land rights, starting a chain of events that would culminate three decades later in the Mabo judgment, which overturned the legal fiction of terra nullius, that the land was owned by noone.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...k-petitions-20130710-2pqfx.html#ixzz2a3gE34zd
Close enough HB. Basically the courts awarded $$$ compensation to the Yirrkala people. But on appeal the fantasy of terra nullius
(Terra nullius is a Latin expression deriving from Roman law meaning "land belonging to no one",) a European view of land use, therefore possession. Was invoked to allow a multi national company to rape the traditional lands of the original owners because they didn't use the land in a way that they considered the right way. EG. No crops or herds of stock. But the original owners had developed over many many generations the best way to survive using the resources of the land.
They had no herd animals or crops to grow but utilized what was available to them.
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(Terra nullius is a Latin expression deriving from Roman law meaning "land belonging to no one",) a European view of land use, therefore possession. Was invoked to allow a multi national company to rape the traditional lands of the original owners because they didn't use the land in a way that they considered the right way. EG. No crops or herds of stock. But the original owners had developed over many many generations the best way to survive using the resources of the land.
They had no herd animals or crops to grow but utilized what was available to them.
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I just finished watching a doco on the first indigenous occupants of Australia which traces the migration and history.
Pretty amazing!
http://www.abc.net.au/iview/?series=3463233#/view/40804
Pretty amazing!
http://www.abc.net.au/iview/?series=3463233#/view/40804
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backcreek said:
Arent we supposed to be watching that in 16 minutes
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Here is a bit of a twist to this game ............................... Who is this ?
It's just about to start?backcreek said:
Truganniniheadbut said:
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I hope you didnt get that by the truganini.jpg link LOL
My first thought was... deviate but then racist kicked in.headbut said:
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Ramjet said:
I don't want to comment on corporations making decisions on how people use their land, monsanto can do that for us...
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Monsanto... don't get me started on that one.
Sorry people... gotta work early.
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