Saturday, February 16, 2019
Uncertain Reconciliation between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous people o
Reconciliation between Aboriginal People and Non-Aboriginal raft to some extent is important towards Australias future. Given the past injustices involving grunge rights, the stolen generation and Government Policies, it illustrates that Australia has some way to go ahead of the to the full reconciliation between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians and that without reconciliation our future is uncertain.The Aboriginals were denied their land rights when European settlement occurred in Australia. As the Aboriginals were nomadic, the land that they lived on and moved close on soon became occupied by the Europeans. This disenabled the Aboriginals to sustain their ceremonial and ethnic links with the land. Efforts to win Indigenous land back involved administration policies and court acts. In 1976 Gough Whitlam introduced a Land Rights Act which made governments more aware of the issues of Aboriginal Cultural Land. With the aid of this policy Eddie Mabo was able to guide a case that was known as the Native Title. This was one of the most famous cases, the Mabo v Commonwealth, and it wa...
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