Was Australia ‘invaded’ by the British? I previously answered this question in detail in a previous article here. However, the article did not address the popular and misunderstood claim that British settlement is illegitimate because they did not recognise Aboriginal sovereignty under the doctrine of terra nullius (‘land belonging to no one’).
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