buted to the birth of an important statute that is the Native Title Act of 1993.
Although it was known at that point of time Australia was indeed inhabited by Aborigines with a sophisticated civilization but it was not possible for the English settlers to adapt to its legal system as the culture of both parties were very much different. So being English subjects born and raised in England therefore having to settle in a different land would best be applied English law. Richard West, Counsel to the Board of Trade commented in 1720, "Let an Englishman go where he will, he carries as much of law and liberty with him as the nature of things will bear". Meaning to say an English subject would still be bound by his own English Law no matter where he goes, either in his homeland itself or overseas. As English Law was first applied in the New South Wales and other colonial states, this would also mean that Australia was also under the ruling of the United Kingdom Parliament and was subjected under the English Law that was already enacted and the laws that were to be enacted in the future. As the Australian Law slowly expanded accordingly, not only the whites were subjected under it but also the Aborigines. Although so, the law that was subjected to them did not offer them any protection nor civil rights furthermore the ownersh
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