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Aborigines should have access to their ancestral lands. Indigenous Australian should be able to visit, use or in some cases inhabit the land which belonged to their forebears. They were the first inhabitants of these lands and therefore they have the right to access them. History has it that the original inhabitants of Australia were the aborigines. They should have the right just as we do to be allowed to visit their ancestral lands. The …

…was colonized by white people. However this denies the rights, obligations and natural justice of humans. No one can come to your land and claim it and use the excuse, "You have lost the entitlement of this land therefore it no longer belongs to you." Aboriginal people would benefit enormously from reconnecting with their own land and cultures. Their historical, cultural and spiritual connections would be restored and returned to them as they once were.