OUTLINE THE IMPORTANCE OF THE
FOLLOWING FOR THE LAND RIGHTS
MOVEMENT
MABO DECISION
Overturned the notion of
‘Terra Nullius’, deeming
it legally invalid
This held imense significance because the judgements
of the high court implemented the legal doctrine in to
australian law that recognized that traditional rights and
land ownership of the torres straight islander people
1992
NATIVE TITLE
The Mabo decision influenced the federal government to
make a statute which would create a process governing
future claims of Native Title. that is, it created a framework
for both the protection and recognition of native title.
1993
The recognition that Aboriginal people
who occupy land on which their families
have lived continuously for hundreds of
years are the owners of that land
Important step for Aboriginal
self‐determination
WIK DECISION
1996
The wik people
claimed native title
over their sacred and
traditional land in
Queensland
The movement determined that
native tittle could co-exist with
currently esatblished pastoral
leasing for cattle grazing.
The decision was significant becasue it
recognized the Wik people right to access
their traditional lands
INTRO: Land rights are of critical importance in relation to
Aboriginal Spirituality because the Dreaming is
inextricably connected with the land
CONCLUSION: Therefore, the various land rights movements,
the Mabo and Wik Decision and Native Tittle Act,
withheld immense significance through its overarching impact. In
each case the traditional custodians of the land where re
connected and symolically regranted land, in which their traidition
culture and spirituality emmanates
The land rights movements was a way of
attempting to repiar the damadges done
thorugh dispossesion, as evident in the Stolen
generations, Separation form the land, and
separation from Kinship groups