Aboriginal concept of terra-nullius

Aboriginals regarded their land as sacred. Places on earth share the sacredness of dreaming as they were formed in their present shape by the journeys of the ancestors. Aboriginal tradition, culture, religion, law and kinship were derived from “their” land. High mountain peaks may represent a place where one of their ancestors reared up and looked over the surrounding country, and a ridge along a range could be an ancestral track.
To the Aboriginal people the land is not dead. It’s alive with power and history marked by their ancestors. For Aboriginals the land is the core of all spirituality and the ownership of this land means that they had the responsibility to care for and nurture it. Aboriginals consider the land as sacred not only for food and water, but because it is also the depot of the secret and sacred ...