Saturday, August 10, 2013

What is your view about the rights of Indigenous people to consider themselves the first landowers of the continent of Australia. Justify your view.

There is really no way to dispute the idea that indigenous
people were the original landowners of the continent of Australia.  It is well
established that they were the first human beings to get to Australia and were the only
human beings who were there until the coming of the
Europeans.


Because of this, it is clear that indigenous
Australians have a moral claim to the land.  However, I do not mean to say that
indigenous Australians should have the right to regain the legal (as opposed to moral)
title to the land.  It was surely wrong for the Europeans to dispossess the Aborigines
by force.  However, that happened so long ago that there is no viable way to undo the
wrongs that were done.


My view, then, is that indigeneous
Australians have a moral claim to the land since they were there first.  However, they
should no longer have a legal claim to all the land since that would simply be
impossible to enforce.

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