Recognizing Aboriginal Title : : The Mabo Case and Indigenous Resistance to English-Settler Colonialism / / Peter Russell.

A judicial revolution occurred in 1992 when Australia's highest court discarded a doctrine that had stood for two hundred years, that the country was a terra nullius - a land of no one - when the white man arrived. The proceedings were known as the Mabo Case, named for Eddie Koiki Mabo, the Tor...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]
©2005
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (450 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part One. SETTING THE STAGE
  • Part Two. INDIGENOUS COLONIZATION AND ITS CONTESTATION
  • Part Three. BUILD-UP TO THE MABO CASE
  • Part Four. THE MABO CASE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index