Gail Mabo still remembers where she was when she heard her father had won his case against the state of Queensland in Australia's High Court. Today marks 30 years since the Mabo decision that saw the overturning of terra nullius — an expression claiming land was owned by no-one prior to white settlement. A lifetime of learning "I remember the …
In Australia, the sense of belonging, home and place enjoyed by the non-Indigenous subject — the coloniser or migrant — is based on the dispossession of the original owners of the land and the denial of our rights under international customary law. His perennially popular song, “I Still Call Australia Home”, points to the current of movement and migrancy which …