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Since the 50,000 years or more they have occupied the Australian continent, Aboriginal Australians have always had a spiritually eternal bond with the land. The land not only provided the basic needs of life in the form of food and shelter, but it was also the basis of the Aboriginal beliefs. Hence, for the Aboriginal people, the land became sacred sites, which were physical and very real. However, when white settlement began in Australia in 1788, the British adopted terra nullis, which is the concept that the land belongs to no one. Since then, for two centuries the land rights of the Aboriginal Australians were ignored. In 1982, a group of people, traditionally known as the Meriam people, who were from the Murray Islands in Torres Strait led by Eddie Mabo, took a case to the Supreme Court of Queensland, claiming that they had ownership of the islands because their...

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