When Worlds Collide in Legal Discourse. The Accommodation of Indigenous Australians’ Concepts of Land Rights Into Australian Law

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

Christiansen Thomas¹ 

[1] University of Salento;

关键词: possessives;    conceptualisation;    indigenous rights;    native title;   

DOI  :  10.2478/slgr-2020-0044

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The right of Australian Indigenous groups to own traditional lands has been a contentious issue in the recent history of Australia. Indeed, Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders did not consider themselves as full citizens in the country they had inhabited for millennia until the late 1960s, and then only after a long campaign and a national referendum (1967) in favour of changes to the Australian Constitution to remove restrictions on the services available to Indigenous Australians. The concept of terra nullius, misapplied to Australia, was strong in the popular imagination among the descendants of settlers or recent migrants and was not definitively put to rest until the Mabo decision (1992), which also established a firm precedent for the recognition of native title.

【 授权许可】

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