cook decided to claim the entire island for great britain even though he had only seen a very small proportion of it and it was only in NUMBER_TOKEN actually that the explorer thomas mitchell and his son made contact with the murawari people and by NUMBER_TOKEN there were already settlers or colonizers taking over large pieces of land which led to conflict with the murawari people who were already there as the settlers attacked them and committed many massacres against the people there after this initial land crabbing phase the relations between the aboriginal people and the newcomers did improve somewhat and the relations were mainly peaceable however the british crown had never actually formally declared war on the murawari people nor taken their land and there was no kind of treaty between the murawari people and the british or the subsequent australian government when its colonies voted to become a federation by referendum in NUMBER_TOKEN nor were there any in the following century well this video is about to take a time jump of around a century if you go to today's video sponsor which is magellan tv then you can find out more about australia's history especially in one documentary i particularly liked which is called the story of australia and as many of you will know the english word history is etymologically related to the word story and indeed this documentary is really clever in what it does in that it shows lots of the story of of individuals in australia and connects them to the broader narrative of australian history because ultimately history is simply the stories of those people that live through it now it doesn't just talk about the european arrival with the british in botany bay but in fact goes back much further and has a whole section in the first episode about the aboriginal people and their ancestors who hunted mega fauna when they still lived on australia that makes this documentary really good watching alongside this video as it shows an angle on the ancestors of people like the murawari who have been in australia for an incredibly long time now you can find this documentary and many others in fact there are around NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN on history new ones being added each week if you follow the link in the description which is URL_TOKEN history with hilbert and there you can find out an awful lot more about australia and its history in NUMBER_TOKEN a group called the people's council of the murawari decided to put this to the test they said when captain cook arrived here in NUMBER_TOKEN he said he was claiming the continent in the name of the crown but on what legal grounds did he take our land they took this further and decided to draft a letter which they sent to both the australian government and also to the head of the government of australia which technically is still queen elizabeth ii of the united kingdom and indeed of australia and in it they asked three things they asked for any treaties between the murawari people and great britain they asked for a deed of session showing the murawari to have handed over their sovereignty of the land or of documents providing evidence for a declaration of war between great britain and the murawari people they sent this away on the NUMBER_TOKENth of march NUMBER_TOKEN with a deadline set at the NUMBER_TOKENth of may NUMBER_TOKEN and when they didn't hear anything back by this deadline they declared the murawari republic an independent state in the east of australia saying the marawari
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN well this video is about to take a time jump of around a century if you go to today's video sponsor which is magellan tv then you can find out more about australia's history especially in one documentary i particularly liked which is called the story of australia and as many of you will know the english word history is etymologically related to the word story and indeed this documentary is really clever in what it does in that it shows lots of the story of of individuals in australia and connects them to the broader narrative of australian history because ultimately history is simply the stories of those people that live through it now it doesn't just talk about the european arrival with the british in botany bay but in fact goes back much further and has a whole section in the first episode about the aboriginal people and their ancestors who hunted mega fauna when they still lived on australia that makes this documentary really good watching alongside this video as it shows an angle on the ancestors of people like the murawari who have been in australia for an incredibly long time now you can find this documentary and many others in fact there are around NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN on history new ones being added each week if you follow the link in the description which is URL_TOKEN history with hilbert and there you can find out an awful lot more about australia and its history END_SPONSOR_TOKEN