Paved With Good Intentions: Terra Nullis, Aboriginal Land Rights and Settler-Colonial Law (by Hannah Robert)
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How Good Intentions Built a Legal Fiction
In this legal history, Hannah Robert examines the period before the Mabo decision, when humanitarian concern for Aboriginal people, arising out of the anti-slavery movement, became entangled with the legal doctrines that denied Aboriginal sovereignty and land rights in Australia.
She traces how competing ideas about civilisation, property and Indigenous peoples shaped colonial law, showing how well-meaning intervention from London and the frontier ultimately helped ...
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How Good Intentions Built a Legal Fiction
In this legal history, Hannah Robert examines the period before the Mabo decision, when humanitarian concern for Aboriginal people, arising out of the anti-slavery movement, became entangled with the legal doctrines that denied Aboriginal sovereignty and land rights in Australia.
She traces how competing ideas about civilisation, property and Indigenous peoples shaped colonial law, showing how well-meaning intervention from London and the frontier ultimately helped entrench, rather than resist, the terra nullius doctrine.
A close, scholarly read for students and readers of Australian legal and colonial history.
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