There have been many changes over the years in the social structure between the Indigenous Australians and the British settlers. Indigenous Australians continue to maintain their relationship and connections through ceremonies, storytelling and also political activism. This relationship has somewhat improved as the Europeans have become more respectful of the traditional custodians. “The common law doctrine gave sudden substance to the tribes' claims to justiciable property rights over their traditional lands, catapulting these up the national agenda and jolting them out of a previous culture of governmental inattention” (McHugh,
