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Truth Telling and Colonial History

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A Review of Truth-Telling: History, Sovereignty and the Uluru Statement by Henry Reynolds , 288 pages, NewSouth Publishing ( February 2021 ) Henry Reynolds argues that it was a mistake for the colonists not to make treaties with the indigenous peoples in Australia .

The sovereignty of Australia ’s “First Nations” was not recognised in any treaty.

In practice, international law in colonial times was nothing like the ideal Reynolds argues it should have been.

Conquest was routine and the right of nations to make war was accepted.

Even François I, the Catholic King of France , colonised New France ( Quebec ) in full and frank disregard of the Treaty of Tordesillas.

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English

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