| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 290 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Contents |
Bearers of Cultural Change -- Of Silences and Secrets -- Rights of a Kind Unknown to English Law -- My Father Gave Me all the Rights and Every Responsibility -- If You Want To Be a Real Murray Islander You Follow Malo's Law -- Hearsay or Traditional Evidence? -- Assimilation or Basic Continuity? -- A Trial of Truth: Outcomes -- Two Categories of Land Law: The High Court -- The Sea: Within the Compass of Native Title -- Native Title in the Reshaping of Australian Identity -- Glossaries -- Index |
| Summary |
This is the inside story of the Mabo case, a unique court drama where rights and interests previously unknown to Anglo-Australian law came to be recognised by the High Court of Australia. In far north-east Australia lie the homelands of the Meriam, a dynamic seafaring, fishing and gardening people. They explained in court, often eloquently, how their 'cultural way' retains a fidelity to distinctive principles while also accommodating new ideas and techniques. In the name of Meriam law they also defended their right to land passed between generations by the spoken word. Their right to land carries with it a moral and practical responsibility to other Meriam and to the land itself. Meriam culture, often diminished in the hearing of evidence, has an original contribution to make to future Meriam, to the rest of Australia and to the world. In exploring the role of native title in the reshaping of Australian identity, some of the deeper questions of cultural diversity and self-determination are identified |
| Analysis |
Aboriginal land rights |
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Federal issue |
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Legislation |
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Mabo case |
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Murray Islands (Mer Islands) (Qld) |
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Native title |
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Queensland |
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State issue |
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Torres Strait Islanders |
| Notes |
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-283) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Mabo, Eddie -- Trials, litigation, etc.
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Mabo, Eddie, 1936-1992 -- Trials, litigation, etc
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Mabo, Edward, 1936-1992 -- Trials, litigation, etc
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Australia. High Court. Mabo and others v. State of Queensland
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Australia. Native Title Act 1993.
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Queensland -- Trials, litigation, etc.
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| SUBJECT |
Mabo decision
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| Subject |
Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure.
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Land tenure -- Law and legislation -- Australia.
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Land tenure -- Law and legislation -- Australia -- Murray Islands (Qld.)
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Land tenure -- Law and legislation -- Australia -- Queensland -- Murray Islands
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Native title (Australia)
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Land tenure -- Law and legislation.
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Torres Strait Islanders -- Land tenure -- Australia -- Murray Islands (Qld.)
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Torres Strait Islanders -- Land tenure -- Australia.
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Torres Strait Islanders -- Land tenure.
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Torres Strait Islanders -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Australia -- Murray Islands (Qld.)
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Torres Strait Islanders -- Land tenure -- Australia -- Queensland -- Murray Islands
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Torres Strait Islanders -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Australia -- Queensland -- Murray Islands
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| SUBJECT |
Queensland http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79004089 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001302
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Queensland http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79004089 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99002033
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| Genre/Form |
Trial and arbitral proceedings.
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| Author |
Informit.
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| LC no. |
96151154 |
| ISBN |
0855752874 |
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