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The Theft And Return Of Australian Indigenous Land 1788 To 2013

March 3, 2023 7 Comments

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Map created by Jon Altman from the Australian National University, Canberra

The map above shows that between the establishment of the British penal colony of New South Wales in 1788 and the mid-1960s, Indigenous Australians were deprived and dispossessed of virtually all their land.

According to Jon Altman, who created the map, this theft was justified using a number of reasons including:

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Filed Under: Australia Tagged With: Indigenous


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