Custodianship, Country and how specific Indigenous peoples' relationships changed after European colonisation

What this note covers

1. Custodianship is a relationship, not a land use
2. Country: defining the term the way the exam wants it defined
3. Naming specific communities: the Victorian examples worth knowing
4. Managing Country before colonisation
5. The rupture: dispossession and its mechanisms
6. Continuity, resistance and return
7. How this topic is examined and what separates a top-band answer

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