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Originally posted by aussiespeeder
Origines, not aborigines (meaning NOT original), not indigenous (meaning of no race), not native (meaning flora and fauna),
The whalers, the traders, the missionaries, and the settlers who came after Cook entered a country in which there was no central authority to enforce law and order, the Maoris being politically organised on a tribal basis only. In this situation the early years of settlement were marred by lawlessness and bitter tribal warfare. Australian Governors felt some responsibility for these events and there were claims that references in the Commission of the Governor of New South Wales to “islands adjacent in the Pacific Ocean” gave some legal basis for this responsibility. Nevertheless, when Governor Macquarie in 1814 appointed Thomas Kendall, a missionary, as a Justice of the Peace in New Zealand, he was almost certainly acting without authority. The inclination of the Colonial Office in London to adopt the subterfuge of regarding New Zealand as “a Foreign Power under a regular Government” was shown by the appointment in 1833 of a British Resident, James Busby. Busby was to “claim the protection and privileges … accorded in Europe and America to British subjects holding in foreign states situations similar to [his]”. He was expected to apprehend escaped convicts and send them back for trial,
Originally posted by Kandinsky
Who's continent is it?!
Way back some 60 000 years ago, a raft landed on the coastline of Northern Australia and was claimed by those who landed as theirs. Absurd.
The Aborigines didnt claim the great southern land,they didnt try to own it.They respected the land and took care of it and it took care of them,they were caretakers unlike the modern human who see themselves as landlords.
Originally posted by aussiespeeder
Statement from Mark McMurtrie, OSTF Secretariat.
admiralty law
Originally posted by harpsounds
Anytime I see this term, or things like "sovereign citizen", I get te feeling it's either a massive failure already, or worse, it's a scam by someone who's charging money for "hidden knowledge".