GMGT 3300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Terra Nullius, Responsible Government
26 May 2017
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Responsible government the ministers comprising the executive are elected representatives who are also members of and are answerable to the legislature. History: for tens of thousands of years prior to british settlement there was in existence in australia a sophisticated and effective legal system: the indigenous australian legal system, unfortunately, the british did not recognise or acknowledge the indigenous. Australian legal system upon their arrival in the 1700s: australia was declared to be terra nullius at the time the colony was established, australia was deemed to have been settled by britain rather than conquered by.
