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IMPORTANCE FOR THE FOLLOWING FOR THE LAND RIGHTS MOVEMENT: LAND RIGHTS:        

February 1965, Charles Perkins led a bus tour of NSW to protest racial discrimination Focused national attention on racism that had been supported by “white Australia” Natives were denied service in public areas Australia day 1972, Tent Embassy on lawns of Parliament house Harold Thomas national flag; black for the people, red for the land (pr bloodshed), yellow for the sun, the life giver. He protested against living conditions and the lack of Aboriginal affairs in the government Commonwealth Police pulled them down 20th July, Protests marches around Australia and surprising support for Aboriginals Land Rights is political and spiritual. Movement began 1963- Bark petition by Yirrkala. 1971 supreme and then high courts ruled against them

MABO 1992  

The high court of Australia upheld the claim of the Meriam people from the Murray islands in the Torres Strait that Australia was not “terra nullius”; and that the island had been continuously inhabited by the meriam people. Named after activist Eddie Mabo

NATIVE TITLE 1993 

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Native Title validated the existence of non-indigenous interests in land such as freehold leases, mining leases and other grants and licences. It accepted that Indigenous peoples who have continuing interest in the land had rights to the land. Where both indigenous and non indigenous people had interest in the land, the act provided and appropriate forum for dealing with this Recognises rights of Indigenous people Recognises the validity of Aboriginal territorial laws already existing prior to European settlement NOT giving actual land ownership Recognises the rights of Indigenous people in relation to areas of land and water belonging to their particular Ancestral Tribes

WIK 1996 

Concerned land that was subject to pastoral leases. The high court of Australia decided that Native title rights could co-exist side by side with rights of pastoralists. However, when pastoralists and aboriginal rights were in conflict, the pastoralists rights would prevail

IMPORTANCE OF DREAMING FOR THE LAND RIGHTS MOVEMENT 

Aboriginal spirituality is founded on the principal that indigenous peoples have an inextricable connection to the land. They are part of the land and the land id part of their being.

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The Ancestor spirits gave the aboriginal people rights, obligations and responsibilities to care for the land and use it in expression of their spirituality Sacred places are critical for aboriginal people ceremonial life The land s home of totems, sacred objects and the spirits of Ancestral beings The declaration made by white settlers that Australia was terra nullius denied these foundational principals of aboriginal belief system The key decisions- Mabo, Wik and native title explored the rights of aboriginal people who had maintained continual contact with their traditional land....