Aboriginal and Torres strait

By rcrookes

  • Missions meaning

    Missions meaning
    the vocation or calling of a religious organization, especially a Christian one, to go out into the world and spread its faith.

  • 1880s

    1880s
    During the 1880s, new Native Protection Acts caused widespread displacement and suffering to Aboriginal peoples. Many Indigenous people's lives were extremely affected by dispossession, Western diseases and systematic attacks.

  • 1897 Text past

    1897 Text past
    This document is the instrument effecting a major law directed at Aboriginal people in Queensland. It was followed in other Colonies and thus probably affected more Aboriginal people than any law until the passage of the Commonwealth Native Title Act 1992.

  • Terra nullius

    Terra nullius
    nobody's land". This doctrine has existed in the law of nations throughout the development of Western democracy.