A lunchtime conversation and the rejection of “terra nullius”
Australian Academy of the Humanities 2021-10-18
Summary:
A sandwich on a bench As a young historian at James Cook University in Townsville in the 1970s, Henry Reynolds struck up a friendship with a gardener named Eddie Mabo. Mabo was astonished to learn, during one of their conversations, that his family’s ownership of ancestral land on his beloved Mer Island, in the Torres …
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