By Damien Short
In 1991 Australia instigated a countrywide reconciliation venture among indigenous and non-indigenous humans. regardless of being the longest-running reconciliation technique, there was no authoritative examine of Australian reconciliation up to now. Reconciliation and Colonial energy is the 1st e-book to investigate Australian reconciliation as a strategy, filling an important hole in theoretical and empirical figuring out. Damien brief deals a sociological interpretation of this approach which means that, instead of being a real try out at atonement, Australian reconciliation might be higher understood because the most recent degree within the colonial undertaking. He considers the relevance of acknowledgement and apology, restitution and rights, country development and country legitimacy to the reconciliation venture. This paintings compliments the burgeoning literature on reconciliation idea and perform and offers fertile fabric for comparisons with reconciliation techniques in different international locations similar to Chile and South Africa.
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It was conceded that the British Crown (in the form of the colony of Queensland) became sovereign of the islands upon their annexation in 1879, yet the plaintiffs claimed continued enjoyment of their land rights arguing that they had not been validly extinguished by the sovereign.
In short, I emphasise a sociological standpoint that places Australian reconciliation in the context of nation building and a hegemonic project of state legitimisation. This page intentionally left blank Chapter 3 Reconciliation and Land The First Fleet of European colonisers arrived on Gamaraigal land on 26 January 1788. The early reports of William Dampier, the English pirate/explorer, and Captain Cook and others, generally portrayed the ‘natives’ of New Holland, as the continent was then called, as small in number, wandering nomadically with no fixed territory and with no recognisable system of laws and customs (see Dampier, 1927: 312).
Although he had not been back home for 10 years, he had no concerns about this land; everyone on the island knew it was Mabo land and the people there would care for it. On one of these occasions I said to him, ‘Look, you do appreciate, don’t you, that although in your view this is your land, it’s actually all Crown land. According to white Australian law, you don’t own any land on Murray Island’. I still remember the look that came over his face – it was a look of incredulity; how could anyone be so mistaken about the land not belonging to his family?