Introduction The making of a nation is a slow and painful process. It needs a people who identify with each other and with the land they inhabit. Australia began that process on 26 January 1788. This essay will attempt to describe the Pre-European Customary law which existed in Australia in 178...

Judith Wright is commonly regarded as Australia's greatest twentieth century female poet. She was born on her father's station property at Wallamumbi in New South Wales in 1915 and even attended the University of Sydney, where she graduated with a BA in 1936. Between then and the outbreak of the S...

Marriage 1: Every tribe in Australia was divided into a number of small social groups, but for marriage purposes, into two main groups sometimes called marriage moieties. Let's call them A and B. People from group A could not marry people from the same group. In other words they married people fr...