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Explain the impact of the land rights movement into Aboriginal spirituality: - The land rights movement in the 1970’s - Mabo - Wik - Howard’s 10 point plan - Reconsiliation What did these judgements mean to the spirituality of Aboriginals? The phrase land rights did not appear until 1970’s, but there has been many protests and demands by aborigines about what societies had taken away from them, and the demand for this to be recognised and rectified (Mudge 1997 52). When the overwhelming ‘yes’ vote received in the Referendum, it allowed Aboriginal people to be counted in the Census and the commonwealth was given power to make laws for them (Mudge 1997 52). In the bicentenary of Captain Cook’s landing at Kurnell, the site that was previously home to the old Aborigines Protection Board at La Perouse a ceremony of mourning that called for ‘Land Rights – Nationally – Now’ was held. Prime Minister McMahon thought that land rights would threaten the security of Australians, and that Aboriginal people were to be granted spe