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Squattocracy Australia, At first, most squatters did not have legal rights to use the land. The other side of the establishment of the ‘Squattocracy’ though is something very different, as Barry Stone has presented; the cost of lives, bloodshed and horror that also built these massive empires. Squatting in Australia usually refers to a person who is not the owner, taking possession of land or an empty house. The term – a play on the English ‘aristocracy’ – is still used in Australia to describe large landowners in rural areas with a history of pastoral occupation. Abstract This thesis investigates the historical origins of inequality in Australia by examining the relationship between squatting settlements in New South Wales and Victoria, and measures of inequality today. It was a view that the squatters themselves actively encouraged. It combines "squatter" (someone occupying land without legal title) with "aristocracy" (the ruling elite). May 21, 2015 ยท ‘ Squattocracy ’ is a term specific to Australian history which describes the political and social power of people who illegally settled Crown land in the nineteenth century and who became wealthy from exploiting the territory. The Australian colonies were among the pioneers of ‘universal’ male and later female franchise in the nineteenth century; Aborigines gained (de jure) full citizenship only in the late 1960s. Despite the occasional attempt by some to employ Indigenous people or provide charity the majority of these modern day scions remain at the forefront of Indigenous dispossession opposing land rights, treaties and native title claims The squattocracy exerted significant influence on colonial land policies, advocating for leasehold systems that prioritized large-scale pastoral holdings over smallholder settlement, as seen in the legislative accommodations following the 1836 Squatting Act and subsequent acts like the 1846 Orders in Council, which formalized occupation Squattocracy You are here Discover Collections History of our nation Australian agricultural and rural life Life on the land navigation ends The squattocracy To the people of Great Britain - where every inch of land had been owned and traded for centuries - it must have seemed incredible that settlers in the new colonies of Australia could simply trek into the bush, mark out a large parcel of land and claim ownership without reference to anyone else. dj9b, fzeg, mzw2ykp, xl, kr, az3ux, nz96xc, itn, hg4sz, wzknrkt,