Terra Nullius and the 'history wars'

Following the publication of Michael Connors The Invention of Terra Nullius the Australian history wars have reignited. Once again, the press was responsive to an argument ostensibly attacking the left, the 1980s, the historical profession, and Henry Reynolds. May be it is because of the Australia Day season: everyone knows a cheap foray into historical polemic could score you a few points. John Howard, in the meantime, has attacked the way history is being taught. Connor departed from terra nullius remarkable currency in a number of public discourses and searched for it in 18th and 19th century sources. He did not find it, and outlining terra nullius career in legal and more general understandings, has concluded that it has been fabricated from the 1970s and in later debates. He especially attacks Henry Reynolds and his The Law of the Land for claiming that terra nullius had existed at a time when the record ostensibly does not register it. Connors is a necessary contribution: however, while he does not fabricate his evidence, perhaps he does not understand it.