St. Mary’s treaty discussed on Cath News

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Oodgeroo accuses Brisbane archdiocese over St Mary’s Treaty

Terrra Nullius and Ecology

by John Tracey

“Yet the form of bush that is protected in the national parks of today, places without the human species, are a phenomenon of the last hundred years, younger than many Australian urban centres. The removal of human beings from the bush in the last two hundred years has turned our wilderness areas into overgrown untended gardens.”

The Roman Catholic Church – Common Law Notice of want of jurisdiction

COMMON LAW

NOTICE OF WANT OF JURISDICTION

COMPLAINANT:

Dennis Bruce Walker
XXXXXXXXXXXXX
BRISBANE QLD 4101

RESPONDENT
Archbishop John Bathersby,
The Archbishop of Brisbane,
Archbishop’s House,
790 Brunswick St.,
(P.O. Box 936)
New Farm Qld 4005

(in the right of the Roman Catholic Church in Australia)
and
( in the right of Her purported Royal Highness
“Queen Elizabeth II of Australia”
Buckingham Palace
London, ENGLAND SW1A 1AA)

In respect of the Roman Catholic Church in Australia (its archdioceses, dioceses, and parishes) having any jurisdiction, whatsoever, in the Indigenous nations/lands of the continent known as ‘Australia’ , the Complainant states that:
Unless there is an acknowledgement of Indigenous peoples’ Sovereignty, and a real commitment to redress the illegal nature of the occupation of our Indigenous lands, by way of TREATY, the Roman Catholic Church, and indeed the State and Federal governments and all establishments that uphold and sustain the Roman Catholic Church in Australia, are operating in our Indigenous lands, illegally, and have no jurisdiction to make any decisions regarding the use of our lands/law/culture.

Why Terra Nullius? Anthropology and Property Law in Early Australia by Stuart Banner

From Law and History Review

The British treated Australia as terra nullius—as unowned land. Under British colonial law, aboriginal Australians had no property rights in the land, and colonization accordingly vested ownership of the entire continent in the British government. The doctrine of terra nullius remained the law in Australia throughout the colonial period, and indeed right up to 1992. 1