Aborigines

The Judicial Over-Reach of the Mabo Case

Remember that strange word usufruct? What have the conjurers done with it? Where has it gone? I am sure you have all heard of the Mabo case. Well, actually, Mabo cases. The original case was filed on May 20, 1982, as Mabo and Others v The State of Queensland and The Commonwealth of Australia, with the Queensland registry of the High Court in its original jurisdiction. The complaint was against the Queensland government’s action of treating the land, reefs and submerged lands on the Murray Islands as Crown Land as a result of the British Colony of Queensland annexing various…

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