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Barron Field's Terra Nullius Operation

Ford, TH ; Clemens, J (Australian National University, 2019-11-30)

In ‘Barron Field’s Terra Nullius Operation’, Thomas H. Ford and Justin Clemens show how a jurisdictional dispute over the application of taxation law in the New South Wales colony led to the performative annulment of the idea that the land—decreed ‘uninhabited’ and a ‘desert’—was already occupied.