The “Native title Act” established new laws in allowing the jurisdiction of the Federal Court of Australia to hear and undertake claims and applications that revolve around native title. The Wik Decisions was also an important pastoral lease that was released as a result to the Mabo decision in 1996. Pastoral leases are a form of land tenure that was created by the British prior to the squatters in the 1830’s to 1840’s. In the Wik Case, the governments posed questions referring towards native title in that a grant of pastoral lease was in relation towards it. In conclusion the High Court established that native title should be wiped out from pastoral leases.
Assignment topic: The Constitution, long as it is, contains merely the framework of government, whose substance and strength must come by natural growth." * per Alfred Deakin December 4, 1900. Explain how the 'natural growth' mentioned by Deakin occurred over the next 100 years and how different it was compared to the vision of the original framers of the Constitution. Word Count: 1098 The Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900 entered into force on 1 January 1901. It had many framers, including Alfred Deakin (second Prime Minister of Australia).
The merger meant that the newly formed company was required by Australian law to offload two radio stations, as one company cannot own more than two radio stations in the same market. As a result, 4RO and 4CC were offloaded to Canberra-based Prime Media Group. Around the same time, Prime also acquired a number of other regional stations after similar events occurred in other regional radio markets - Zinc and 4CA in Cairns, Zinc and Mix FM in Townsville, Zinc and 4MK in Mackay, and Zinc and Hot 91 on the Sunshine
These statements are clearly not true as expressed in the quote from the book, Fatal shore by Robert Hughes ‘fake-egalitarian cruelty that is still one of the bad dreams of Australian life’. These statements by Mr. Smith show either a clear misunderstanding or clear ignorance of early Australian colonial history. In the early colonial times of Australian history, Australia was used mainly by its mother nation Britain in the late 1780’s to the mid 1850’s as remote foreign prison ‘It was Australia their new vast, lonely possession…. From there convicts would never return’ (Fatal Shore). It was a prison for the convicts, it was to ‘get rid of, or at least greatly reduce, crime in Great Britain’, Australia was home of the convict class of Britain, it was the “bottom” class.
In the 1800 a lots of countries explored the world in a race who could find new lands first and settle, but as the race went on, they countries didn´t gave the aboriginals a chance, the took theme as slaves, killed them if they didn´t obey the white man´s word, but is this okay? A normal civilized man today would says that it´s not, but still the Australians celebrates Australian day as a national day, when in fact this day for nearly 100 years ago there was a massacre on the people how are the rightful owner of the country, that the white people came and “discovered”. Through an analyse of to text how has different opinion about the subject, I will try to understand this subject better. The first text called “the white man´s burden” is
AUSTRALIA’S BLACK LEGAL HISTORY Formally representing King George III’s prerogative power, Captain Cook’s symbolic claiming of Australia for Britain on January 26 1788 interrupted a 40,000 year land use tradition that had existed under a grundnorm quite alien to that which Australian Aboriginals were to be subjugated. THE PREROGATIVE POWERS AVAILABLE TO GEORGE III IN 1788 English law assigns powers to acquire new territory to the Crown as part of its prerogative.” As the Crown has discretion to determine the extent of its dominions, it is informative to consider its intentions concerning territorial acquisition. King George III’s exercise of his prerogative powers between 1788 and 1823 become a crucial factor affecting New South Wales Aboriginal inhabitants. Disputes concerning whether Australia would become a settled or conquered colony were determined by the exercise of prerogative powers relating to the conduct of foreign affairs, and as such, were unchallengeable by the courts , providing the Crown an opportunity to play a pivotal role in determining territorial acquisition. Much of the unease expressed in the cases following stem from use of this prerogative and
The Kanakas were from the area known as Melanesia (part of the Pacific Islands). They were brought into Australia to mainly work in the sugarcane plantations in Queensland. By the early 1890s, 46,000 laborers had arrived in Queensland, Many of these people were forcibly removed from their homes, in a process called "blackbirding", by which Islanders were either kidnapped or tricked into traveling to Australia. The issue of non Europeans settling in Australia was increasing, and the colonial governments were looking for ways to stop these settlers. This was one of the main reasons why the colonies agreed to join as one nation.
Invasion or Settlement Essay 2011 ‘The early years of Port Phillip were a mixture – peaceful settlement, violent confrontation and attempts by both Europeans and Aborigines to fit in with each other’s’ ways.’ To what extent do you think this is an accurate depiction of the early history of the Port Phillip District? The settlement of the Australian colonies in the late eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries could hardly be described as ‘a peaceful confrontation with the aboriginal society’. Between the periods of 1788 until the 1820s, the Australian civilization was faced with unexpected problems, forcing the aborigines to struggle for their very survival. Some of the clashes that emerged within the settlements of New South Wales and
During the 1850’s, the idea of uniting all of Australia’s colonies to form a single nation was conceived. However, the idea lacked popularity and was then abandoned. At the time, colonies were more concerned with putting the interests of their own people first, although technologies to ensure communication between colonies had not been developed. It was not until the 1880’s that people began to give consideration to the many advantages that uniting the colonies under a federal government would have, this would make uniform laws. The main reasons for Australia federating were Defence, Immigration, Transport and trade and Taxes.
Conscription in Australia was Debated in 1916 to raise the number of Australian troops. Conscription is the compulsory enrollment of persons especially for military service and was used in many countries around the world. Australia had the ability to apply subscription but only on Australian soil, many issues came only with this legislation. (APPENDIX) The level on conscription in Australia was limited to Australian land under the provisions of the Defence Act, rather than being able to deploy troop in to overseas territory. This issue heavily affected the introduction of conscription in Australia.