Question
The 1997 Bringing Them Home Report urged a formal apology to these people from John Howard’s government. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name these people, whose Stolen Generations of children were forcibly taken into white families. The rights of these people to used native lands were affirmed in a 1992 Queensland case that overturned terra nullius.
ANSWER: Australian Aboriginals [or Aborigines or Indigenous Australians or Australian Indigenous peoples; accept but DO NOT reveal Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples; prompt on Australians]
[10h] This activist and founder of the Townsville Black Community School sued Queensland over the doctrine of terra nullius. Paul Keating’s Redfern Speech praised the decision of that case commonly named for this man.
ANSWER: Edward “Eddie” Koiki Mabo [accept Edward Koiki Sambo; accept Mabo v Queensland (No. 2); or the Mabo case]
[10m] Eddie Mabo taught the Papuan Meriam language to children from these islands off the coast of Queensland’s Cape York Peninsula. Together with the Aborigines, the Melanesian people of these islands form Australia’s Indigenous community.
ANSWER: Torres Strait Islands [accept Torres Strait Islanders; reject “Torres Islands”]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia | 11/11/2023 | Y | 8 | 20.00 | 100% | 88% | 13% |
Data
| Columbia B | NYU A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Haverford | Rutgers B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Vassar | Penn A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Yale B | Princeton A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn B | Princeton B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Rutgers A | Bard A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia A | Yale A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Cornell C | Yale C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |