Legal cases Flashcards
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Mabo Case
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Mabo v Queensland (1992) was a High Court of Australia decision that recognized the existence of native title for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, overturning the doctrine of terra nullius (land belonging to no one) and establishing that Indigenous Australians had pre-existing rights to land
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Tasmania Dam Case
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1983 Commonwealth v Tasmania Ruled that the commonwealth had the legal authority to prevent the construction of the dam due to their signing of the world heritage treaty
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Saxon Mullins case
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R v Lazarus (2015- origional) (then 2016 2017)
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brittney higgins
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R v Lerhmann occured in 2019 origional trial got taken out
