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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.
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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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 ...
The squatting district of Murray was created in 1843 and the first Commissioner of Crown Lands for this region was Henry Wilson Hutchinson Smythe. H.W.H. Smythe was the brother-in-law of William Lonsdale and had previously been employed as a colonial surveyor working in regions uncharted to the British with people such as Foster Fyans .
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]
Subsequently, there were struggles between squatters and selectors, and the laws were circumvented by corruption and the acquisition of land by various schemes, such as the commissioning of selections to be passed eventually to squatters and the selection of key land such as land with access to water by squatters to maintain the viability of their pastoral leases.
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 ...