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Eddie Synot, Lecturer, Griffith Law School, Griffith University

What we mean when we say 'sovereignty was never ceded'

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In discussing the Uluru Statement from the Heart, I will be doing something that, as a lawyer, is perhaps not best practice: I am not going to define my terms or confine my comments to the law.

Although our constitutional system of governance is underpinned by a rigid concept of sovereignty we have inherited from the British parliament, its meaning is in fact quite nebulous.

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