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John Batman's 1836 Treaty with the Wurundjeri near Melbourne was the only instance of a written land agreement between white settlers & indigenous Australians- which was later nullified by the Crown. However, WI the treaty hadn't been so dismissed ? WI there'd been other attempts made by other white settlers to come to some mutual understanding of land use & ownership in Australia ? Could there have ever eventuated an Australian version of the Treaty of Waitangi, & with what effects of Aboriginal land rights & race relations in Australia today ?
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