Property, ownership and the travesty of mining on Aboriginal lands

Jennifer and Jacques explore the meanings of ownership and property in western thought, and how concepts of land use and productivity have been used to justify the dispossession of first nations people.ReferencesGnuse, R (1985) You Shall Not Steal: Communiy and Property in the Biblical Tradition. New York: Orbis BooksJurczak, P. (2019) Ch.10 - The Nature of Property in Introduction to Philosophy. Simple Book Publishing.Emmanuel Kant in 1795 'Zum ewigen Frieden, ein phil' (Towards an eternal Peace: a philosophical proposal):'America, the black countries, the spice islands, the Cape, etc. were for them, as they were discovered, lands which were not owned by anyone; because they didn't consider their inhabitants to be anything."