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{{Use Australian English|date=October 2011}}
[[Image:INNES AC.jpg|thumb|[[Archibald Clunes Innes]], a prominent squatter in the [[colony of New South Wales]]]]
In the [[history of Australia]], '''squatting''' was the act of extrajudicially occupying tracts of [[Crown land]], typically to graze [[livestock]]. Though most squatters initially held no legal rights to the land they occupied, the majority were gradually recognised by successive colonial authorities as the legitimate owners of the land due to being among the first (and often only) white settlers in their area.
==Evolution of meaning==
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