Terra Nullius Research Paper

This document reinforces that all land is now owned by the British Crown and that and individual may only procure land if it is distributed by the Crown (Bourke 1835, p. 1). This reinforces the belief that Europeans had no respect for Indigenous Australians or their right to the land they have occupied for over 45,000 years, as they declare the land to be theirs. The whole concept of terra nullius itself was a legal and self-serving justification of the appropriation of land despite there already being people living of of the land. Terra nullius also states that it is a land that has not been subject to sovereignty, so it may be claimed by another, this means that the British clearly believed that though there were already people living there,