Aborigines seek native land rights

From: Sunday Gazette-Mail | Date: June 2, 2002| Author: The Associated Press | Copyright information

CANBERRA, Australia - Dispossessed and mistreated for more than two centuries, Australia's Aborigines thought their luck had changed when the nation's highest court acknowledged they had property rights over lands they had occupied for thousands of years.

But the high hopes have faded and Aborigines will mark the 10th anniversary of the landmark High Court decision with little more than a soul-searching conference titled "Unfinished Business."

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