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Coburg, Victoria sign acknowledging that the Wurundjeri people originally inhabited the land, and containing the Australian Aboriginal flag. A land acknowledgement or territorial acknowledgement is a formal statement that acknowledges the original Indigenous peoples of the land, spoken at the beginning of public events. The custom of land ...
A Welcome to Country is a ritual or formal ceremony performed as a land acknowledgement at many events held in Australia. It is an event intended to highlight the cultural significance of the surrounding area to the descendants of a particular Aboriginal clan or language group who were recognised as the original human inhabitants of the area.
A Welcome to Country (or Acknowledgement of Country) is a ritual or formal ceremony performed at many events held in Australia, intended to highlight the cultural significance of the surrounding area to a particular Aboriginal clan or language group who are recognised as traditional owners of the land. [15]
The test for the acknowledgement of aboriginal title in the United States is actual, exclusive and continuous use and occupancy for a "long time". [12] Unlike nearly all common law jurisdictions, the United States acknowledges that aboriginal title may be acquired post-sovereignty; a "long time" can mean as little as 30 years. [ 13 ]
It asserts that Aboriginal peoples were the first on the continent now known as Australia, occupying and caring for the land for more than 65,000 years, [4] and that sovereignty of Country has never been ceded. [1] It is sometimes shortened to "Always was, always will be." [5]
[13] [14] [15] Since the 1980s, [16] First Nations and non-First Nations Australian academics have developed an understanding of a deeply rooted custodial obligation, or custodial ethic, that underpins Aboriginal Australian culture, and could offer significant benefits for sustainable land management and reconciliation in Australia.
The 1972 Larrakia Petition is a landmark document in the fight for land rights for Aboriginal people and helped drive momentum for the Woodward Royal Commission. [7] As such it was a precursor for the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1976 .
Keating's choice of location was significant; Redfern had been the centre of Aboriginal (or more specifically, Koori) culture and activism in Sydney for decades. The speech came only six months after the Australian High Court 's historic Mabo decision , which had overturned the legal fiction of terra nullius , and recognised native title in ...