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Captain James Cook landed in Botany Bay and declared Australia 'Terra Nullius' meaning 'empty land'. He claimed this new land for the crown (King George 11)
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The arrival of the First Fleet brought and end to Aboriginal peace and the beginninig of landloss,disease and destruction of the traditional Aboriginal way of life.the concept of 'terra nullius" or 'empty land' confirmed by whites and labelled 'the Big Lie' by Aboriginies.
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Aboriginies were able to gain some land but this was later reduced by half with Aboriginies forcefully taken off the lands by police.
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By the time of the federation, there was still little recongniton for Aboriginals.In fact, the Aborigines were not counted as citizens in the census but as flaura and fauna.
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these were the first documents bridging Commonwealth law as it stood, and the Indigenous laws of the land.
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The Referendum finally allowed Aboriginies to be included in the Australian census as people rather than flora and fauna
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Four young Aboriginal men erected a beach umbrella on the lawns outside Parliament House In Canberra and put up a sign which read ' Aboriginal Embassy'
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Eddie Mabo and four other Meriam people of the Murray Islands in the Torres Strait took action in the High Court of Australia seeking confirmation of their traditional rights.
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a law which recongnizrd Aboriginal rights to claim vacant crown/government land