Apologies and the Legacy of an Unlawful Application of Terra Nullius in Terra Australis
The use of the legal fiction, terra nullius, as it was erroneously applied to Terra Australis, Australia, as a legal doctrine, supported the British colonial power’s right to settle that territory. Since then, many unspoken (as well as acknowledged) acts of structural and direct violence have been p...
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ftubuckinghamojs:oai:ojs.www.bjll.org:article/1922 2023-05-15T16:15:50+02:00 Apologies and the Legacy of an Unlawful Application of Terra Nullius in Terra Australis Pitt-Walker, Stephen 2021-03-31 application/pdf http://www.ubplj.org/index.php/dlj/article/view/1922 https://doi.org/10.5750/dlj.v32i1.1922 eng eng University of Buckingham Press http://www.ubplj.org/index.php/dlj/article/view/1922/1631 http://www.ubplj.org/index.php/dlj/article/view/1922 doi:10.5750/dlj.v32i1.1922 Copyright (c) 2021 Stephen Pitt-Walker https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 CC-BY-NC The Denning Law Journal; Vol. 32 No. 1 (2020); 177-190 0269-1922 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2021 ftubuckinghamojs https://doi.org/10.5750/dlj.v32i1.1922 2022-11-28T17:02:56Z The use of the legal fiction, terra nullius, as it was erroneously applied to Terra Australis, Australia, as a legal doctrine, supported the British colonial power’s right to settle that territory. Since then, many unspoken (as well as acknowledged) acts of structural and direct violence have been perpetrated against the First Nations population in Australia via the imposition, and later ‘reception’, of the legal system and laws of England, as well as the dominant socio-political system, that represented the British Crown. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations The University of Buckingham Press Journals Terra Australis ENVELOPE(-62.900,-62.900,-64.900,-64.900) The Denning Law Journal 32 1 177 190 |
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The use of the legal fiction, terra nullius, as it was erroneously applied to Terra Australis, Australia, as a legal doctrine, supported the British colonial power’s right to settle that territory. Since then, many unspoken (as well as acknowledged) acts of structural and direct violence have been perpetrated against the First Nations population in Australia via the imposition, and later ‘reception’, of the legal system and laws of England, as well as the dominant socio-political system, that represented the British Crown. |
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