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Aboriginal Land Rights Introduction Aboriginal Australians have always had an eternal bond with the land. For the 50,000 years or more, they have occupied the continent; the land provided not only the basic needs, but also the spiritual beliefs. In the Dreaming, the forms of the land, mountains, rivers, landscapes and animals took shape and the spirit of ancestors resided in places that became sacred sites to the Aboriginal people. The land to these people were their most precious commodity. When white settlement began in Australia in 1788, the concept of terra nullius {the land belonging to no-one} was adopted by the British. This was assumed because the Aboriginals had not cultivated the land, so it was uninhabited. However, the Mabo Case in 1992 changed this notion. The Mabo Case 1992 In May 1982, Eddie Mabo and four other Meriam people of the Murray Islands in the Torres Strait area went to the...

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