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 ...

A date for a new papal statement on the Doctrine of Discovery, promised by Pope Francis on his way home from Canada to Rome in July, has not been announced. But whenever it happens, it is likely to ...

The federal government has not created a Royal Proclamation of Reconciliation, issued by the Crown, nor has it formally repudiated the concepts of the Doctrine of Discovery and terra nullius. We call ...

When European explorers first set foot on the lands that are now Canada, they claimed the territory as their own, despite the presence of Indigenous Peoples who had already been occupying the lands ...

Since the advent of colonisation, the absence of an effective process for conducting dialogues between the broader community and First Nations people has been a festering sore at the heart of ...

EVERYONE knows the British justified their invasion of Australia in 1788 with the legal doctrine of terra nullius. As the NSW Labor MP Linda Burney said in 1999, this was absurd to the point of ...

Eddie Mabo walking with his team of lawyers in his case, which saw the High Court overturn the legal doctrine of terra nullius. Source: NITV It has been 28 years since the Mabo decision recognised ...

OTTAWA — When European explorers first set foot on the lands that are now Canada, they claimed the territory as their own, despite the presence of Indigenous Peoples who had already been occupying the ...