Terra Nullius (Encore)

Everything Everywhere Daily

Gary Arndt

History, Education

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Imagine you want to start a brand new country. Only, you don’t want to go through the messy process of starting a revolution or a civil war in a currently existing country. You want to find an empty piece of land for yourself that no one has claimed. Is such a thing possible? Learn more about the doctrine of Terra Nullius and where it could still theoretically be exercised in the world today, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors BetterHelp is an online platform that provides therapy and counseling services to individuals in need of mental health support. The platform offers a range of communication methods, including chat, phone, and video sessions with licensed and accredited therapists who specialize in different areas, such as depression, anxiety, relationships, and more. Get 10% off your first month at BetterHelp.com/Everywhere ButcherBox is the perfect solution for anyone looking to eat high-quality, sustainably sourced meat without the hassle of going to the grocery store. With ButcherBox, you can enjoy a variety of grass-fed beef, heritage pork, free-range chicken, and wild-caught seafood delivered straight to your door every month. Visit ButcherBox.com/Daily to get 10% off and free chicken thighs for a year. InsideTracker provides a personal health analysis and data-driven wellness guide to help you add years to your life—and life to your years. Choose a plan that best fits your needs to get your comprehensive biomarker analysis, customized Action Plan, and customer-exclusive healthspan resources. For a limited time, Everything Everywhere Daily listeners can get 20% off InsideTracker’s new Ultimate Plan. Visit InsideTracker.com/eed. Subscribe to the podcast! https://link.chtbl.com/EverythingEverywhere?sid=ShowNotes -------------------------------- Executive Producer: Charles Daniel Associate Producers: Peter Bennett & Thor Thomsen Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere Update your podcast app at newpodcastapps.com Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/everythingeverywheredaily Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretrip Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following is an encore presentation of Everything Everywhere Daily.
0:04.0	Imagine for a moment that you want to start a brand new country,
0:10.0	only you don't want to go through the messy process of starting a revolution or a civil war in a currently existing country.
0:16.0	You want to find a piece of empty land for yourself that no one has claimed.
0:20.0	Is such a thing even possible? Learn more about the doctrine of Terra Nullius
0:25.0	and where it could still theoretically be exercised in the world today
0:28.0	on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. everything everywhere daily. The term Terra Nullius is Latin for nobody's land. It's a legal concept that deals with land that hasn't been claimed by any country.
0:55.1	It's derived from the legal concept of Resnellius, which means nobody's thing.
0:59.4	Resnellius pertains to property that's been abandoned or that no one owns.
1:03.0	For example, a couch that someone's put out on the curb
1:05.6	might fall under the theory of Res Nullius
1:07.9	because they've abandoned it.
1:10.0	The extension of Res Nullius to land
1:12.2	was a European innovation that occurred during the age of exploration.
1:15.0	And it was a pretty handy concept as you were sailing around the world and came to a new land.
1:20.0	You could just say, well, there's no one here, so I guess it's ours now.
1:24.5	The idea of Terra Nullius was exploited the most when the British claimed Australia.
1:29.6	Of course, you can probably immediately see the problem in claiming that Australia was nobody's land when there were in fact a whole bunch of people in Australia and they had been there for 40,000 years.
1:40.0	It wasn't actually used when the British discovered Australia so much as it was a theory used to justify what they had already done in the late 19th century.
1:47.5	It actually became the center of a court case in 1992, Mabo versus Queensland, which overturned the doctrine of Terenolius, which had been used to dismiss
1:56.2	Aboriginal land claims.
1:58.4	While the Terenolius doctrine has most certainly been abused, there have also been many cases where truly
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