Comments on: Mabo and the real Terra Nullius myth https://thinkingsovereignty.com/2020/06/20/mabo-and-the-real-terra-nullius-myth/ Thinking Sovereignty Sun, 25 Apr 2021 21:52:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 By: “Sovereignty is a spiritual notion” – Catholic influence in the Uluru Statement – Thinking Sovereignty https://thinkingsovereignty.com/2020/06/20/mabo-and-the-real-terra-nullius-myth/#comment-37 Sun, 25 Apr 2021 21:52:04 +0000 https://decolonisethemind.wordpress.com/?p=421#comment-37 […] It’s widely known that part of this text (much of the second paragraph above) is drawn from a quote by Nicolas Bayona-ba-Meya in the Western Sahara International Court of Justice (ICJ) case. The original quote is from a third-person account (a submission made by Bayona-ba-Meya, a Congolese lawyer acting for Zaire) describing the connection that Sahrawi people have with their land. This submission was to the ICJ, and formed part of the subsequent ICJ advisory opinion. The court case itself was initiated by Morocco and Mauritania feuding over Sahrawi land. This ICJ advisory opinion was then drawn on by the Australian High Court in Mabo 2. […]

]]> By: “Sovereignty is a spiritual notion” – Catholic influence in the Uluru Statement – Thinking Sovereignty https://thinkingsovereignty.com/2020/06/20/mabo-and-the-real-terra-nullius-myth/#comment-36 Fri, 23 Apr 2021 16:25:46 +0000 https://decolonisethemind.wordpress.com/?p=421#comment-36 […] over Sahrawi land. This ICJ advisory opinion was then drawn on by the Australian High Court in Mabo 2. I don’t know that anyone ever bothered asking the Sahrawi people what they think about all […]

]]> By: The logic of Native Title – Thinking Sovereignty https://thinkingsovereignty.com/2020/06/20/mabo-and-the-real-terra-nullius-myth/#comment-35 Mon, 19 Apr 2021 08:28:32 +0000 https://decolonisethemind.wordpress.com/?p=421#comment-35 […] cannot have been surrendered historically – well at least not to any British Subject before Mabo2 overturned the Crown’s right of preemption. Interesting side-note, in the tabloids a few years ago was a case where land could have been […]

]]> By: Indigenous peoples are second-rate peoples – Thinking Sovereignty https://thinkingsovereignty.com/2020/06/20/mabo-and-the-real-terra-nullius-myth/#comment-34 Mon, 04 Jan 2021 10:47:09 +0000 https://decolonisethemind.wordpress.com/?p=421#comment-34 […] (Background -Johnson v. M’Intosh is a court decision made in the USA in 1823 about land titles. Even though it was in USA, it has had a huge indirect effect in Australia which I have touched on here) […]

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