Reconciliation without justice: competing timelines in indigenous land claims

• Main Author: Bell, Lindsey
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: British Columbia; Canada; Indian; Murray Islands; New Zealand; Queensland; Maliseet
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1983/606331ec-18b9-401a-9210-abd201e73129; https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/publications/606331ec-18b9-401a-9210-abd201e73129

Reconciliation without justice: competing timelines in indigenous land claims In 1992 in the landmark case of Mabo (No. 2), Australia's highest court discarded a doctrine which had stood for over 200 years: that the country was terra nullius when white settlers arrived. The decision saw a concl...