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22-833: Faure Island is a 58 km island pastoral lease and nature reserve , east of the Francois Peron National Park on the Peron Peninsula, in Shark Bay , Western Australia . It lies in line with the Monkey Mia resort to the west, and the Wooramel River on the eastern shore of Shark Bay. It is surrounded by the Shark Bay Marine Park and Shark Bay World Heritage Site and, as the Faure Island Sanctuary,

44-473: A 5821 ha Important Bird Area (IBA). The Faure and Pelican Islands (Shark Bay) IBA supports breeding colonies of fairy terns and over 1% of the world populations of red-necked stint and pied oystercatcher . Together with the nearby Quoin Bluff and Freycinet Island IBA, it supports more than 1% of the world population of pied cormorants . The original native mammal fauna of Faure Island did not survive

66-605: A friendship with Eddie Mabo , who was then a groundsman and gardener at James Cook University . In his book Why Weren't We Told? , Reynolds describes the talks they had regarding Mabo's people's rights to their lands, on Murray Island , in the Torres Strait . Reynolds writes: Eddie [...] would often talk about his village and about his own land, which he assured us would always be there when he returned because everyone knew it belonged to his family. His face shone when he talked of his village and his land. So intense and so obvious

88-569: Is owned and managed by the Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC). The island was given its European name by French explorer Nicolas Baudin in 1801, in honour of the geographer, Pierre Faure , aboard his ship Le Naturaliste . Pastoral leases over the island were granted to Charles Broadhurst in 1873, and to WD Moore & Coy in 1883. For most of the 20th century, from 1905, the Hoult family of Denham ran sheep and goats on

110-545: Is semi-arid to arid, with hot dry summers and mild winters. Rainfall is erratic, falling mainly in winter, with an annual average of 222 mm. Cyclones may sometimes bring rainfall in summer and autumn. Faure Island is an important breeding area for many seabirds , as well as being important for migratory waders using the East Asian - Australasian Flyway . With the neighbouring much smaller (5 ha) Pelican Island and their associated mudflats, it has been identified as

132-512: The Northern Territory was governed by the colonial government of South Australia ); Sir John Forrest in the colony of Western Australia ; and Sir Samuel Griffith in Queensland . Pastoral leases exist in both Australian commonwealth law and state jurisdictions. They do not give all the rights that attach to freehold land: there are usually conditions which include a time period and

154-449: The frontier violence , and many more Aboriginal peoples died indirectly through the introduction of European diseases and starvation caused by being forced from their productive tribal lands. Geoffrey Blainey and Keith Windschuttle categorise his approach as a black armband view of Australian history . In 2002, Windschuttle, in his book The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, Volume One: Van Diemen's Land 1803–1847 , disputed whether

176-919: The Faure Sill sandbank that is a major component in the creating of the conditions within the Hamelin Pool Marine Nature Reserve. 25°52′S 113°53′E  /  25.867°S 113.883°E  / -25.867; 113.883 Pastoral lease In the Australian states and territories , leases constitute a land apportionment system created in the mid-19th century to facilitate the orderly division and sale of land to European colonists. Legislation ensured that certain Aboriginal rights were embodied in pastoral leases. However, according to historian Henry Reynolds , several colonial leaders ran roughshod over these rights, including Sir John Downer (when

198-727: The Frontier (1981). Henry Reynolds was born in Hobart , Tasmania , in 1938, the son of John Reynolds, who was a journalist who wrote the first biography of Edmund Barton . He attended Hobart High School . Following this, he attended the University of Tasmania , where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in History in 1960, later gaining a Master of Arts in 1964. Reynolds taught in secondary schools in Australia and England. He joined

220-539: The High Court's recognition of land rights. In September 2022, Reynolds appeared with filmmaker Rachel Perkins at a National Press Club of Australia address, soon after the airing of Perkins' SBS Television series, The Australian Wars . Henry Reynolds has received the following awards and honours: In tribute to Reynolds' seventieth year, the conference Race, Nation, History: A Conference in Honour of Henry Reynolds

242-658: The University of Tasmania. The Other Side of the Frontier , published in 1981, was ground-breaking in that it was the first major work by an historian to write Australian history from an Aboriginal perspective. In many books and academic articles Reynolds has sought to explain his view of the high level of violence and conflict involved in the colonisation of Australia , and the Aboriginal resistance to numerous massacres of Indigenous people. Reynolds, along with many other historians, estimate that up to 3,000 Europeans and at least 20,000 Aboriginal Australians were killed directly in

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264-464: The academic staff at Townsville University College (later James Cook University) in 1966. In the 1970s, he undertook an oral history project. He served as associate professor of history and politics from 1982 until his retirement in 1998. In 2000 Reynolds became professorial fellow at the University of Tasmania in Launceston . As of September 2022 , Reynolds was Emeritus Professor of History at

286-515: The colonial settlers of Australia committed widespread genocide against Indigenous Australians, and accused Reynolds of misrepresenting, inventing, or exaggerating evidence. Subsequently, in Whitewash: on Keith Windschuttle's fabrication of Aboriginal history (2003; edited by Robert Manne ), it was argued that Windschuttle failed to meet the criteria that he used to assess "orthodox historians" and his accusations were thus flawed. Reynolds struck up

308-558: The introduction of livestock and the presence of feral cats . However, sub-fossil evidence of the former presence of native mammals has brought reintroduction of the boodie , Shark Bay mouse , banded hare-wallaby and western barred bandicoot . An attempt to reintroduce the greater stick-nest rat failed. The island is located within the Shark Bay Marine Park and is adjacent to both the Wooramel Seagrass Bank and

330-615: The island. In 1999 the Hoults sold the lease to the AWC, which removed more than 3400 sheep. The landscape consists mostly of red and white sandy plains and dunes, with claypans in low-lying areas. The highest point is 26m above sea level. It has some limestone and red sand cliff shores, like Peron Peninsula. The vegetation is predominantly low shrubs of Acacia ramulosa . There are also mallee shrublands, spinifex grasslands, samphire / Atriplex shrublands, and coastal mangroves . The climate

352-616: The issue of Indigenous land ownership in international law, and encouraged Mabo to take the matter to court. "It was there over the sandwiches and tea that the first step was taken which led to the Mabo judgement in June 1992 ". Mabo then talked to lawyers, and Reynolds "had little to do with the case itself from that time", although he and Mabo remained friends until the latter's death in January 1992. Reynolds' 1970s oral history project however contributed to

374-403: The lease has: Henry Reynolds (historian) Henry Reynolds FAHA FASSA (born 1938) is an Australian historian whose primary work has focused on the frontier conflict between European settlers in Australia and Indigenous Australians . He was the first academic historian to advocate for Indigenous land rights , becoming known with his first major work, The Other Side of

396-526: The leaseholder and the affected native title group. Australian jurisdictions have land management legislation that affects the administration of pastoral leases. As of November 2023 the legislation and management arrangements are as follows: The statutory provisions of pastoral leases are covered by the New Zealand Crown Pastoral Land Act 1998 and the Land Act 1948 . The holder of

418-419: The leases falls mainly to state and territory governments. Leases within state jurisdictions have variations as to applicability from state to state. Under Commonwealth of Australia law, applicable only in the Northern Territory , they are agreements that allow for the use of Crown land by farmers. Native title can co-exist with pastoral leases, and Indigenous land use agreements may be made between

440-450: The type of activity permitted. According to Austrade , such leases cover about 44% of mainland Australia (3,380,000 km (1,310,000 sq mi)), mostly in arid and semi-arid regions and the tropical savannahs . They usually allow people to use the land for grazing traditional livestock, but more recently have been also used for non-traditional livestock (such as kangaroos or camels ), tourism and other activities. Management of

462-909: Was held in August 2008. It was sponsored by the Australian National University 's Research School of the Humanities and the Research School of the Social Sciences, the National Library of Australia , and the University of Tasmania. Larissa Behrendt of University of Technology Sydney was among the speakers. In December 1963 Henry Reynolds married Margaret Reynolds (née Lyne), who served as an ALP senator for Queensland in Federal Parliament from 1983 until 1999. Their daughter

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484-466: Was his attachment to his land that I began to worry about whether he had any idea at all about his legal circumstances. [...] I said something like: "You know how you've been telling us about your land and how everyone knows it's Mabo land? Don't you realise that nobody actually owns land on Murray Island ? It's all crown land." He was stunned. [...] How could the whitefellas question something so obvious as his ownership of his land? Reynolds looked into

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