how a colonial judge and poet wrote terra nullius into law
- Written by: Sarah-Jane (SJ) Burton, Research Fellow, School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, Australian National University
Portrait of Barron Field – Richard Read (c.1820).State Library of New South WalesGovernor 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 enacted to invalidate the treaty struck between John Batman...
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