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Due 11.55 pm on Monday 20 April 2020. Monday June 1st 2020
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How have you experienced Australia’s indigenous heritage? Discuss with reference to the key concepts/myth of terra Nullius raised in HUS1DAU, the course materials, and your own subject position.
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PLEASE SEE THE ‘REFLECTIVE ESSAY FAQS’ DOCUMENT FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.
[1] For this task you are permitted to be informal in the footnotes and just say, for example, “Discussion on Adam Goodes in week 9 lecture”, “Standfield, A remarkably tolerant nation”; or “Redfern Now, viewed in week 7”. However, the texts referred to MUST be clearly identifiable, and you MUST include a bibliography which gives full details.
Heritage of Indigenous Australians is a major aspect of Australian history. History of Aboriginal settlement in Australia goes back more than 7000 years[1]. Indigenous identity is of continuing importance and also culturally important, establishing and sustaining continuous ties between land and people. Places with considerable importance and prominence to indigenous peoples involve places identified with Dreaming tales about the rules of the land and how people will respond, locations connected with their faith, sites where many communities have come into connection with indigenous peoples and cultures important to more contemporary uses.
Terra nullius is a Latin term which means "land which belongs to none." British colonialism and ensuing Australian various legislations were formed under the pretense that Australia was terra nullius, supporting the acquisition without an agreement or compensation by British invasion. This basically revoked the earlier ownership of the land by aboriginal people. Then, Justice Blackburn found in the 1971 Gove land rights case that Australia was a terra nullius previous to European invasion[2]. Court decisions cases in 1977, 1979, and 1982 strenuously defended this decision. Even so, on 20th of May 1982, on the island of Mer in the Torres Strait, Eddie Koiki Mabo and four other Indigenous Meriam people started their legal ruling to possess their ancestral homelands[3]. The myth of Terra Nullius is also a conceptual story of the initial years of Aboriginal opposition and colonization interruption.
[1] P.D. Nunn & J.R. Nicholas, ‘Aboriginal memories of inundation of the Australian coast dating from more than 7000 years ago.’ Australian Geographer, vol. 47, no. 1, 2016, p. 11-47.
[2] J. Hunter, ‘Native Title in Australia and South Africa: A Search for Something That Lasts.’ U. Miami Int'l & Comp. L. Rev., vol. 22, 2014, p. 233.
[3] L.A. Knafla, L A., and W. Haijo, eds. Aboriginal Title and Indigenous Peoples: Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. UBC Press, 2011.
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