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The Secret Country Questions in response to "THE SECRET COUNTRY" 1. Australia was regarded as empty land by the British because when the Europeans came to Australia
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For example, the technique of making a silk in ancient China was a seriously kept secret. The law of the country permitted death by torture as penalty for revealing
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1. Australia was regarded as empty land by the British because when the Europeans came to Australia they believed that because Aborigines didn't cultivate the land and were not seen to use the land in a normal, proprietarial sense and also because the Aborigines believed that they didn't own the land and they belonged to the land, the land therefore regarded as void. The law also states that Aboriginals didn't exist in 1788 and therefore no treaties could exist because the Aboriginals didn't exist.
2. Before 1788, there were between 500-700,000 people living throughout the country with a history going back some 60,000 years. The Aborigines lived primarily off the land. They fished in the waters, hunted on the land and harvested food from surrounding areas. Self-sufficient and harmonious, the Aboriginals sometimes felt the need for travel because the land was not abundant enough. The trade between tribes was well established. Aboriginals spent part of their days working to ensure their survival, therefore with such a large amount of leisure time available, they developed a rich and complex ritual life, including language, customs, spirituality, and the law, the heart of which was connection to the land.
3. Without a treaty, Aboriginal peoples had no rights under British rule, and most were driven from their land and at worse tribes were systematically slaughtered.
4. Freedom Rides- of 1965 were a significant event in the history of civil rights for indigenous Australians. Students from Sydney Uni formed a group called the Student Action for Aboriginals, led by Charles Perkins among others and traveled into New South Wales country towns on what some of them considered a fact finding mission. What they encountered was segregation; the students protested picketed and faced violence by raising the issue of Indigenous Affairs. They commonly stood protesting for hours at segregated areas such as...
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