If the High Court were to conjure up indigenous sovereignty, would not this be succumbing to the same phenomenon which European peoples struggled to exclude from operation within a civilised state: laws arising from religious belief and imposed upon the general population by priests or, in this case, indigenous elders and activists
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There is nothing intrinsically wrong with elites if they stick to their areas of competence, but who wants to know some film star's view about global warming or that Cate Blanchett favours an open door refugee policy? As the spectacular failure of the Yes campaign demonstrated, those who presumed to be our betters could recognise their own self-interest but not the common sense of middle Australia
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