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James Cook VC Sandra Harding comfortable on inhabited ground

James Cook VC Sandra Harding comfortable on inhabited ground

On Sandra Harding’s first day as vice-chancellor of James Cook University in far north Queensland she saw what looked like a tombstone of Eddie Mabo. The famous Torres Strait Islander was behind the Australian High Court decision in 1992 that overturned 200 years of “terra nullius” — the notion that Australia was uninhabited when it …read more