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Provided Always that nothing in those our
Letters Patent contained shall affect or be construed to affect the rights of any Aboriginal Natives of the said Province to the actual occupation or enjoyment in their own Persons or in the Persons of their Descendants of any Lands therein now actually
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As colonisation proceeded, no heed was paid to the words of the
Letters Patent about Aboriginal rights to land: there were no treaties signed; colonists bought, leased and were granted land, thus effectively dispossessing the original inhabitants of their land.
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On 31 July 1838, the changes were brought into law by "An act to amend an act of the fourth and fifth years of his late majesty empowering his majesty to erect South
Australia into a British province or provinces" (short name ascribed by the
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Governor and were subject to approval or disallowance by the King as advised by the Imperial Government. The Order-in-Council again expressly protected the rights of "Aboriginal natives".
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legislated for the establishment of a settlement in South
Australia, but did not provide specific directions with regard to how the Province of South Australia was to be founded, which these Letters Patent, formulated by the
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His Honour quotes Kirby in Fejo, who dismissed an argument that the
Letters Patent Proviso provides any protection for the rights of Aboriginal People to the occupation or enjoyment of their lands.
241:, acknowledged publicly that the failure of the state to have met the Letters' promise 170 years later has "been the cause of much loss and suffering for Aboriginal people". On 24 April 2007 the
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An act to amend an act of the fourth and fifth years of His
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Kangaroo Island and all and every the Islands adjacent to the said last mentioned Island or to that part of the main Land of the said Province.
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Kaurna people have been granted native title rights over the Adelaide Plains and metropolitan area in the first such claim to be accepted in an Australian capital city.
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provided authority for the establishment of government in the Province of South Australia. The Order-in-Council provided for a governing Council comprising the
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