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land ownership
Conflicting claims in the forest
Newspaper
1993
assimilation, compensation, land ownership, native title claim, Victoria, Yorta Yorta
Tasmanian aborigines to claim 20% of state
Newspaper
1993
land ownership, Mabo Case, native title claim
...the only thing we had was the land...
Text
 
childhood, land ownership, Las, Mabo, Benny, Mabo, Edward Koiki, Mabo, Maiga, Mabo's Garden
...June 3rd 1992...
Video
1992
High Court Decision, 03/06/1992, High Court judgement, human rights, Land Bilong Islanders, land ownership
Pain for this land...
Video
1967-1971
Blackburn, Justice, Gove, Gove Case, land ownership, Marika, Roy, McIntyre, Greg, Nabalco, Northern Territory, Yirrkala
...clearly defined boundaries...
Video
1989
inheritance, Land Bilong Islanders, land boundaries, land ownership, McIntyre, Greg, Mer, Murray Island
Big Noting Himself
Topic
1982-1992
exile, land ownership, Mabo, Edward Koiki, Mer, Murray Island
High Court Victory
Topic
1992
Australia, Canberra, death, High Court judgement, High Court of Australia, High Court victory, land ownership, Mabo, Edward Koiki, native title
...This yam is like a bank...
Text
 
Land Bilong Islanders, land ownership, yams
...As Willed by my Father...
Text
1989
evidence, inheritance, land ownership, No Ordinary Judgement, Noah, Gobedar, witnesses
Property & Inheritance
Topic
 
Cambridge Anthropological Expedition, inheritance, land ownership, Meriam culture, property
...He's got no claim for this land...
Video
 
Depoma, Marwer, evidence, inheritance, Land Bilong Islanders, land disputes, land ownership, Sebeg, witnesses
Letters of E.K. Mabo to Mr. Marwer Depoma
Text
 
inheritance, land boundaries, land ownership, Mabo, Edward Koiki, Sebeg, witnesses
...Before there was Europeans...
Text
 
Kobere, Henry, land disputes, land ownership, Malo's laws
...there goes my dust...
Text
 
Day, Ron, fish traps, fish traps, land ownership, sea rights, trespass
...you have to ask...
Image and Text
 
evidence, fish traps, land ownership, Wailu, Jack, witnesses
Proclamation of Annexation
Image
1979
annexation, colonisation, crown land, doctrine of tenure, land ownership, Mer, Queensland Government, terra nullius
Napoleon B. Tibi
Video
 
Keon-Cohen, Bryan, Land Bilong Islanders, land boundaries, land disputes, land ownership, McIntyre, Greg, Mer, Murray Island Council, Sebeg
...records of those fights about land...
Text
1898-1999
clans, Day, Ron, land disputes, land ownership, Malo's laws, Mer, missionaries, Murray Island Native Court, tribes
...their 'title deeds' to lands...
Image and Text
 
Cambridge Anthropological Expedition, dari, Gove, Gove Case, Haddon, A.C., head dresses, land ownership, Mabo Case, Mer, Yolgnu
Islanders appearing for Qld
Video
 
barristers, Depoma, Marwer, inheritance, Land Bilong Islanders, land disputes, land ownership, Mabo, Edward Koiki, Queensland Government, White, Margaret, witnesses
...this is our reef...
Text
 
Dauar, land boundaries, land ownership, No Ordinary Judgement, property, sea, Sharp, Dr. Nonie
Food For Our People
Text
1989-1998
Croker Island, Day, Ron, fishing, food gathering, land ownership, Mer, Moynihan, Justice Martin, ownership, Passi, Reverend Dave, plaintiffs, property law, Rice, James, sea, Supreme Court of Queensland
Henry Reynolds
Image and Text
 
crown land, land ownership, Mabo, Edward Koiki, property law, Reynolds, Henry (Prof.)
...We would take their heads off...
Video
 
Kennedy, Flo, Land Bilong Islanders, land ownership, The Townsville Conference, Townsville, warriors
...It's my grandmother's land...
Video
 
inheritance, Land Bilong Islanders, land ownership, Passi, Reverend Dave, plaintiffs, The Townsville Conference
...Land ownership system...
Text
1981
barristers, Castan, Ron, Kennedy, Flo, Keon-Cohen, Bryan, land ownership, No Ordinary Judgement, Sharp, Dr. Nonie, Thursday Island
A dynamic system of law and culture
Image and Text
1992
Brennan, Justice Gerard, land ownership, Mabo judgement, Mabo v Queensland No.2, native title
...In the hearts and minds...
Image and Text
1994-1995
Dodson, Michael, extinguishment, land ownership, ownership
...Surrender, abandonment and extinction...
Text
 
Deane, Sir William, Federal Court of Australia, Gaudron, Justice Mary, land ownership, land rights, Mabo v Queensland No.2, native title, Yorta Yorta, Yorta Yorta Decision
From Bark Petititon to Native Title
Text
1996
aboriginal law, land ownership, Northern land Council, Yunupingu, Galarrwuy
Land Boundaries
Topic
 
boundary markers, clans, inheritance, land ownership, land use, oral tradition
Meriam Land Disputes
Topic
 
Dauar, Depoma, Marwer, land boundaries, land ownership, Mabo, Edward Koiki, Malo's laws, Malo's laws, Mer, Meriam culture, Meriam history, Murray Island Native Court, sea rights, trespass, Waier
Meriam Land
Topic
 
inheritance, land ownership, Meriam culture, Meriam history, oral tradition
Indigenous People & Their Land
Topic
 
custom, indigenous people, land ownership, land rights, land use, sacred
Dreaming Creatures
Image and Text
1976
cultural preservation, culture, custom, dreamtime, land ownership, Northern Territory, Ranger Uranium Mine, Roberts, Silas, Roper River
Native Title's Vulnerability In Australia
Topic
 
extinguishment, High Court of Australia, indigenous people, land ownership, native title, political reaction, politics, Racial Discrimination Act
Belonging To Country
Topic
 
aborigines, Australia, dreamtime, indigenous Australians, land ownership, land rights, sacred
...hospitality and open-handedness...
Text
 
anthropology, Arnhem Land, coexistence, Hiatt, Les, land ownership, Northern Territory, Roberts, Silas
...Political responsibility...
Text
 
anthropology, dreamings, land boundaries, land ownership
Cultural Diversity & Common Identity
Topic
 
aborigines, fishing, hunting, land ownership, land use
Ways of seeing indigenous Australians
Text
 
colonialism, colonists, crown land, land boundaries, land ownership, recognition, sovereignty, Sydney Gazette
...a countryman of theirs...
Text
1835
Batman, John, Clark, Manning, coexistence, land ownership, Port Phillip Association, trade, treaties
Was Batman a Fraud?
Text
1835
Batman, John, coexistence, land boundaries, land ownership, New South Wales, Port Phillip Association, treaties, treaties
A Queen's Birthday Feast
Text
1839-1842
Eyre, Edward John, Kaurna people, land boundaries, land ownership, Murray River, reserves, Sale of Waste Lands Act (1842), South Australia
Edward John Eyre
Text
1833-1845
Eyre, Edward John, land boundaries, land ownership, rations, reserves
Charity & Sovereignty
Topic
1840s
aborigines, Australia, land ownership, New South Wales, Queen Victoria, reserves, sovereignty
19th century Aboriginal 'land rights campaign'
Text
1870-1895
land ownership, land rights
The Queen's Letter
Text
1860s
Corranderk, Kulin nation, land ownership, Protection Boards, Queen Victoria, reserves
Queen Victoria
Text
 
land ownership, Queen Victoria, reserves
Earl Grey - An Historical Teaser
Text
1848
Grey, Earl, High Court of Australia, land ownership, New South Wales, pastoral industry, pastoral lease, pastoralism, Queen Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, Wik
The limits of colonial curiosity
Text
1778-
anthropology, colonialism, colonists, convicts, custom, land ownership, New South Wales, religion, Tasmania, Victoria
Fison & Howitt discover the clan
Text
 
anthropology, clans, Fison, Lorimer, Hiatt, Les, Howitt, William Alfred, kinship, land boundaries, land ownership, marriage, Northern Territory
A Sacred Landscape
Topic
 
aboriginal property ownership, anthropology, Australia, clans, dispossession, kinship, land ownership, religion, sacred
Priscilla Girrabul
Text
 
Arnhem Land, Girrabul, Priscilla, Kakadu National Park, land ownership, land rights, mining, Northern Territory, Ranger Uranium Mine
Uluru handback 1985
Text
1985
Australian Labor Party, Central Australia, Hawke, Bob, land ownership, Northern Territory, Pitjantjatjara, Uluru
the continuation of an indigenous system of law
Text
1990
land ownership, Malo's laws, Malo-Bomai, Meriam culture, Meriam history, religion, sacred
...Malo's Law as evidence...
Text
 
evidence, Kennedy, Flo, land ownership, Malo's laws, Malo's laws, McIntyre, Greg, Meriam culture, Meriam culture, oral evidence, plaintiffs, Sharp, Dr. Nonie, Supreme Court of Queensland, tag mauki mauki
...Moynihan's Findings (Video)...
Video
1990
High Court of Australia, Land Bilong Islanders, land ownership, Mabo, Edward Koiki, Meriam culture, Moynihan, Justice Martin, Murray Island
...That to me is an injustice...
Text
 
land ownership, Meriam culture, Moynihan, Justice Martin, terra nullius
...Unbelievable conclusion...
Text
1990
adoption, inheritance, land ownership, Mabo, Benny, Mabo Case, Mabo, Edward Koiki, Meriam culture, Moynihan, Justice Martin, Sambo, Robert
...Findings re: Custom or System of Law...
Text
1990
aboriginal law, custom, land ownership, Meriam culture, Moynihan, Justice Martin, Moynihan's findings, Murray Island
Boundaries & Markers
Topic
 
land ownership, Las, Mer, Meriam culture, Murray Island
Defending Territories & Making Peace
Topic
 
Depoma, Marwer, land boundaries, land disputes, land ownership, Las, Mabo Case, Mer, Meriam culture, Papua New Guinea
Defining Native Title
Topic
 
aboriginal law, land ownership, native title
Land Bilong Islanders - Mabo
Topic
 
Great Northern expedition, land ownership, Mabo Case, Mabo, Edward Koiki, Malo's laws, Mer, Meriam culture, Moynihan, Justice Martin, Murray Island, sea rights
Land Disputes
Topic
 
clans, Depoma, Marwer, inheritance, land disputes, land ownership, Mabo, Edward Koiki, Murray Island Native Court
Extinguishment of Native Title Continued
Text
1989
claim, extinguishment, land ownership, native title, plaintiffs, Queen Victoria, Radical Title, sovereignty
Crown Land Continued
Text
1845-1975
Attorney-General (NSW) v Brown, 1847 , Australian Court Case, Blackburn, Justice, colonialism, crown land, doctrine of tenure, Gove Case, land ownership, Milirrpum v Nabalco Pty Ltd, 1971 , Northern Territory, NSW v The Commonwealth, 1975, property law, Randwick Corporation v Rutledge, 1959 , Supreme Court of NSW, Supreme Court of the Northern Territory
Sovereignty & Ownership Distinguished
Topic
 
land ownership, Mabo judgement, native title, sovereignty
The Status Of Australian Colonies
Topic
 
crown land, land ownership, sovereignty, terra nullius
...we are becoming regarded as trespassers...
Text
1910
British Columbia, Canada, land ownership, trespass
This is what indian title means
Text
1973
British Columbia, Calder v Attorney-General, 1973 , Canada, International Court Case, land ownership, Supreme Court of Canada
Statement of claim - amended statement
Image and Text
1989
claim, claim, High Court of Australia, land ownership, Mabo Case, Mer, Statement of Claim
Property And Inheritance
Text
 
Cambridge Anthropological Expedition, inheritance, land ownership, Meriam culture, property