Australian concepts of sovereignty have always been qualified.  First came the British settlers and invaders in 1788. They are pregnant with the sovereignty of the British Crown, bringing convicts, the sadistic screws, and forced labour to a garrison of penal experiments and brutality.  The native populations are treated as nothing more than spares, opportunistic chances, More

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