Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 Thomas H. Ford and Justin Clemens : Barron Field in New South Wales : The Poetics of Terra Nullius
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'Most of us associate terra nullius – the doctrine that legalised the English occupation of a purportedly “empty” Australia – with 1788 and the very beginnings of white settlement. But Thomas Ford and Justin Clemens explain that the concept became explicit only considerably later – inspired by, of all things, road tolls.' (Introduction)

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