Everything about The Yirrkala Bark Petitions totally explained
The
Yirrkala bark petitions 1963 are historic
Australian documents that were the first traditional documents prepared by
Indigenous Australians that were recognised by the
Australian Parliament, and are thus the first documentary recognition of Indigenous people in Australian law.
In 1963, the
Yolngu people of
Yirrkala sent the bark petitions to the
Australian House of Representatives. The petition asserted that the Yolngu people owned that land and protested the Commonwealth's granting of mining rights to
Nabalco of land excised from
Arnhem Land reserve. The result was a parliamentary inquiry which recommended that compensation was owed to the Yolngu. Thus, the petition was the first recognition of
native title.
The Yolngu then took their grievances to the courts when it became obvious the politicians in Canberra were not going to recognise their ownership of the land. The case moved to the
Supreme Court of the Northern Territory in
1968 as
Milurrpum v Nabalco; the
Gove land rights case. In 1971 it was ruled that the Yolgnu people were not able to establish their native title at
common law. Justice Blackburn used the notion of
terra nullius to justify this.
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