Australia: Queen Victoria - Crown Owns Nothing, Aborigines Are Sovereign

Australia: Queen Victoria - Crown Owns Nothing, Aborigines Are Sovereign   The Crown doesn’t legally own anything in Australia because Queen Victoria and the House of Lords said so in an 1875 Act.   Nor were the Australian colonies of the time “to derogate from the rights of the tribes or people inhabiting such islands or places, or of chiefs or rulers thereof”.   The startling findings are cited in a media release by Michael Anderson, Aboriginal activist and last surviving member of the four...

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