Doctrine of Discovery: How a papal teaching subjugated Australia's First Nations people
The subjugation of the world’s First Nations people was enshrined in the Doctrine of Discovery, a series of papal decrees, made by Pope Alexander VI in 1493, where any land not inhabited by Christians was available to be ‘discovered,’ claimed, and exploited by Christian rulers. By BJ Cruse.
Source: eurekastreet.com.au