Word: lande
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...that when European occupied the continent in the wake of the founding of the penal colony of New South Wales in 1788, it was regarded, in legal terms, as being "terra nullius," that is to say, uninhabited. Thus the Aborigines were not deemed to have any claims to native land title, nor was there felt to be any need, as in North America and New Zealand, to negotiate treaties with the native inhabitants. Legally, Aborigines were invisible; dispossession could proceed without even the formalities of legal process...
...this changed in 1992 when the High Court of Australia dismissed "terra nullius" as a doctrine based on misinformation and found that it was possible for native land title to have survived. The Mabo decision, as it had come to be know, took its name from the principal plaintiff in the case, Eddie Mabo, who came from the Murray Islands off the coast of northern Queensland. The court upheld this particular claim to native land title, and indicated that mainland Aborigines could similarly argue a case for such title...
...first it was assumed that claims could only apply to Crown land (that is to say, land which had not been alienated). But in the Wik case the Court reinforced Mabo, finding that native title could co-exist with pastoral leases...
...evergreen flowers and fruits, or turn county-size chunks of the region into nature parks for tourists--your children will inherit a wasteland. The message seems to be getting through: in and around Alto Paraiso, a fourth of the residents live off enterprises that don't involve trashing the land...
Rwanda is known as the "Land of a Thousand Hills." Since 1994, when the country convulsed in genocidal spasms that killed 1 million people, it has mostly been a land of tears. As the country's Minister of State for Education--and at 34 the youngest member of the Cabinet--Bizimana must try to salvage a ravaged and traumatized generation of Rwandan children. It is a daunting task. More than 300,000 school-age children were orphaned by the war. The school system is crumbling and underfunded, and many of its teachers either perished in the slaughter four years...