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Squatting in Australia usually refers to a person who is not the owner, taking possession of land or an empty house. In 19th century Australian history, a squatter was a settler who occupied a large tract of Aboriginal land in order to graze livestock. At first this was done illegally, later under licence from the Crown.
In the history of Australia, squatting was the act of extrajudicially occupying tracts of Crown land, typically to graze livestock. Though most squatters initially held no legal rights to the land they occupied, the majority were gradually recognised by successive colonial authorities as the legitimate owners of the land due to being among the ...
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In the 19th century, the British government claimed to own all of Australia and tried to control land ownership. Wealthy farmers of livestock claimed land for themselves and thus were known as squatters. [1] This type of squatting is covered in greater detail at Squatting (Australian history). During the late 1940s the squatting of hundreds of ...
Squatting is the action of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied area of land ... the British government claimed to own all of Australia and tried to control land ...
Already, bipartisan anti-squatting bills have been signed into law over the past few weeks in Florida, Georgia, and New York, where the incident in Queens sparked outrage.
Squatters in Australia formed unions in the 1980s. There was the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Squatters' Union and the Squatters Union of Victoria. [1] Quadrant, a cultural publication based in Sydney ran a story titled the 'Excremental Politics of Squatters' Union' in 1989. [2]
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