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Roma Mitchell Community Legal Centre Inc.

Locality: Norwood, South Australia

Phone: +61 8 8362 1199

Address: 110 The Parade 5067 Norwood, SA, Australia

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24.01.2022 To support Reconciliation Week in 2016, we recommend reading this fact sheet from Reconciliation Australia, which discusses the lives and rights of Indigenous Australians prior to, and after, the 1967 referendum.

24.01.2022 On 18 August 1834, the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (as it was then known), enacted the South Australia Act 1834 (UK). This Act empowered King William IV to establish a province, or provinces, in the geographical area that is now the State of South Australia. On 19 February 1836, the King signed the Letters Patent establishing the province, from which no deviation was permitted. This document included a number of important clauses that are worth a look. Have a read of the original document below:

23.01.2022 Further to our earlier post on the original Letters Patent of King William IV for the establishment of South Australia, we have decided to include a link to a transcription of this document, which is accessible below:

11.01.2022 Today is the 23rd anniversary of the date the Mabo decision was handed down by the High Court of Australia and the last day of Reconciliation Week. After a very long ten-year case, the High Court determined that terra nullius should not have applied to the Australian colonial process. Here is a fact sheet, published by Reconciliation Australia, that details the case and its outcome:

02.01.2022 This is a copy of the original 1215 Magna Carta, which is Latin for "the Great Charter." This document was signed by King John and the English barons of the Middle Ages after the King persistently raised taxes to fight an unsuccessful war in France. Prior to King John's reign, there was an unwritten convention that the reigning Monarch would consult with the barons before increasing taxes or demanding more soldiers. This was important because the barons were required to colle...ct the taxes and provide the soldiers for the King. Barons were often referred to as "freemen" during the Middle Ages, which meant they were the feudal equivalent of a person with a title in land today. This document formalised some of the rights that were enjoyed by the freemen of the Middle Ages such as the right to a trial by a jury composed of one's own peers. This particular right, covered by clause 39, was translated as "No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any way, nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgment of his equals or by the law of the land." The Magna Carta of 1297 moved this clause to #29 when the modified version was confirmed by King Edward I. This document is as important today as it was 800 years ago and forms one of the cornerstones of the modern justice system. See more