Living areas established by governments for Aboriginal people on which managers and matrons controlled (and 'cared for') Indigenous people.

A Commonwealth initiative to promote reconciliation between Indigenous people and the wider community and to redress Indigenous disadvantage.

Form of land title which recognises Aboriginal people as rightful owners of that land.

Fishermen from Sulawesi (now Indonesia) who came to coastal northern Australia to trade with Aboriginal people.

The learning and transmission of a cultural heritage.

The struggle by Aboriginal people to gain acknowledgment of prior ownership of this land both legally and morally and allowing all the accompanying rights and obligations which stem from this association.

Native to a place or area, originating in and characterising a particular region or country.

A concept in international law meaning 'a territory belonging to no-one' or 'over which no-one claims ownership'. The concept is related to the legal acceptance of occupation as an original means of peacefully acquiring territory. However, a fundamental condition of a valid occupation is that the territory should belong to no-on [..]

The study of the material traces of the human past.

The first peoples to a land.