Michael Duffy: Let's start today with our regular Wedge Watch segment, and talk about some political history. Like many people, I used to think terra nullius was a legal concept that had been used by ...
Pastoral ponderings and settler politics: how a colonial judge and poet wrote terra nullius into law
Governor Richard Bourke’s written proclamation of terra nullius was made on October 10, 1835. The original document now resides in the National Archives of the United Kingdom. The proclamation was ...
'I wanted to go to China,' says the author Sven Lindqvist, 'and I went to China. And I wanted to go to India, and I went to India. I wanted to go to Latin America, and I went to Latin America. And I ...
It has recently been republished in handsome new editions by Granta in Britain and the New Press in the US and, much like Bruce Chatwin’s The Songlines or Marlo Morgan’s contentious Mutant Message ...
Coleman stuns with this imaginative, astounding debut about colonization. Coleman is a member of the Noongar people of Australia; when she writes of a dry land where settlers enslave the natives and ...
Eddie Koiki Mabo and others made the High Court of Australia recognise in 1992 that terra nullius – nobody’s land – was a fiction. It is taking us longer to kill off its lesser-known cousin, vox ...
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