The review team will need to avoid the typical terra
nullius myth promoted by many Canberra initiators of large new national campaigns.
Not exact matches
When Aboriginal people showed up — which they inevitably did — they had to be subjugated, incarcerated or eradicated: to keep the
myth of terra
nullius alive.
[38] In fact it has been argued that in failing to acknowledge the prior presence of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, the current Constitution works to perpetuate the
myth of terra
nullius (no man's land).