There's always been an economy in the lands now known as Australia. Well, for at least 60,000 years. In 1788, when the British first started dispossessing the Rightful Owners of the soil, the Crown imposed a different legal and economic system onto these lands. By settlering as if onto a terra nullius, the imposed economic order displaced and discounted the Traditional Economy, impoverishing the Traditional Owners. Native Title, after years of fighting to get the Crown to acknowledge inherited Rights, leaves people with a very limited form of Property Title. [node:read-more:link]