#mabo — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #mabo, aggregated by home.social.
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From gay rights to prisoner voting, the High Court helped decide the way we live and love
When Rodney Croome walked into a Hobart police station to confess a crime, he knew it might land…
#NewsBeep #News #Australia #AU #chiefjustice #HighCourt #homosexuality #Immigration #judgement #judgment #lgbtqia+ #mabo #rodneycroome #vote
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From gay rights to prisoner voting, the High Court helped decide the way we live and love
When Rodney Croome walked into a Hobart police station to confess a crime, he knew it might land…
#NewsBeep #News #Australia #AU #chiefjustice #HighCourt #homosexuality #Immigration #judgement #judgment #lgbtqia+ #mabo #rodneycroome #vote
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/605293/ -
Just like land rights in the ACT are conveyed via long term Leases there is no reason why all land in Australia could not be owned in perpetuity by ATSI nations subject to appropriate leasing arrangements in support of current land ownership laws. That is no one is ‘turfed out’ of their property just because the land belongs to First Nations’ people. Or variations thereof.
The denial of First Nations’ rights to the custody of their land is above all an ongoing theft by the white majority. Acquired by force of arms, colonisation and imposition of British laws which did not recognise anyone owned it beforehand. The reason nothing has been done to right the wrongs are many but they involve power, privilege and money which effectively disappropriates all First Nations people.
Trust an LNP govt (Howard in this case) to undermine the Courts’ Mabo decision (a la fascist).
“Reform is urgently needed to ensure native title is recognised and protected in perpetuity, as originally intended by the Mabo decision, and the Australian legal system fulfils its obligations to our First Peoples.’
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/undoing-the-promise-of-mabo,19761
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I can't imagine spending my entire 39 years convincing the government that I live here and need some rights to determine what goes on here.
Nevemind that my efforts wouldn't have been successful were it not for a champion (Eddie #Mabo) 3500km away taking his people's fight to the High Court of Australia eight years after I started.
Read "Djarindjin community in WA's Kimberley formally recognised by state government" via https://rssfeed.media/@abcfeeds/112846032303824868
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#Australian dual olympian, hall-of-famer, federal senator and #Aboriginal affairs activist Nova Peris on the strong links and solidarity between the #Jewish and Aboriginal communities. #Mabo #AusPol #Antisemitism
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New High Court chief justice Stephen Gageler formally acknowledges Indigenous Australians during swearing-in ceremony https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-06/stephen-gageler-sworn-in-as-new-high-court-chief-justice/103067860 via @ABCaustralia #auslaw #auspol #IndigenousIP #Mabo "This being a ceremonial sitting ... of a court having nation-wide jurisdiction, I also acknowledge traditional owners and custodians of lands in all parts of the continent of Australia, of Tasmania, of the Torres Strait Islands, and of other coastal islands.
"I do so in the place – in the very courtroom – where traditional laws and customs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples were first recognised by the common law of Australia, in the decision of this court in Mabo v State of Queensland (No 2)." -
Mer Land Bilong Islanders #mabo
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'[R]ent due to First Nations represents just 9.5 per cent of the extracted value – less than a traditional British tithe – the settlers keeping over 90 per cent for their efforts. Contemporaries invented terra nullius to deny #Aboriginal people #property #rights and any claim as landlords for #rent from the colonists or the British state. After #Mabo this view is less tenable'.
– David Meredith
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'Why should the people whose #land has been stolen have to prove our land was stolen? Why does the crown own land on this continent when the #Mabo decision technically overturned the doctrine of #TerraNullius and the existence of crown land on this continent? This is the heart of the matter – the proof that the legal system of colonial lands is not an equal one, is not ready to decolonise, to reconcile, for Treaty'.
– @clairegcoleman, https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/opinion/topic/2023/01/21/the-crown-owns-no-land