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Mabo Case Study Australia

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A system that is based on relationships such as ceremonial roles, funeral roles and who marries each other within the Aboriginal community.
Family within the Aboriginal community is based on the kinship system where everyone is related to each other based on their beliefs and customs.
Taking children away from their families and fostering them out to eligible organisations. This started as early as when the Europeans started to settle on the land. The children were used as servants or to work the land.
To become a part of a society or culture by social characteristics and being part of a group.
The Mabo Case was a legal case held in 1992 in the High Court of Australia which determined that Indigenous people should be treated equally using

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