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Aboriginal relationships to the natural world: colonial ‘protection’ of human rights and the environment

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doi:10.4337/jhre.2018.02.01
Authors
Irene Watson
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2018
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en
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University of South Australia

Documentary abstract — original language

Colonialism has challenged Aboriginal obligations and relationships to the natural world. This article describes the efforts of First Nations on the continent now known as Australia to maintain their authority and existences in the face of neoliberalism and colonialism, which the British initially inflicted and under which we still survive. The colonial policies of Australia denied our existence and at the same time attempted to demolish our languages and cultures, and to assimilate the consequences. This article asks the questions: what underpins state claims to the title to Aboriginal lands? Does Australia renounce terra nullius and the racist principles and beliefs which make up such a doctrine? And finally does Australia acknowledge and support all ‘Peoples’ as having an inherent right to self-determination, and as a component of such a right, that all ‘Peoples’ have a right to collectively care for their country and to benefit from a relationship to the land which sustains future generations of all Peoples? The possibility of a future for all life forms on earth lies in the responses states might deliver to these questions.

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W2893321851
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10.4337/jhre.2018.02.01

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    Irene Watson. Aboriginal relationships to the natural world: colonial ‘protection’ of human rights and the environment. 2018. https://doi.org/10.4337/jhre.2018.02.01

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    Irene Watson. (2018). Aboriginal relationships to the natural world: colonial ‘protection’ of human rights and the environment. https://doi.org/10.4337/jhre.2018.02.01
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    Irene Watson. Aboriginal relationships to the natural world: colonial ‘protection’ of human rights and the environment. 2018. https://doi.org/10.4337/jhre.2018.02.01
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    Irene Watson. Aboriginal relationships to the natural world: colonial ‘protection’ of human rights and the environment. 2018. https://doi.org/10.4337/jhre.2018.02.01

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    University of South Australia

    Irene Watson

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