Unfinished Constitutional Business: Rethinking Indigenous self-determination

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A comparative approach to the Ingenuity and the experience of colonization. From Australia to the Solomons, to the USA to Canada, The experience of colonisation in those colonies involved either the introduction of a common law system or an introduced civil law system.

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"[R]einforces the idea that Indigenous affairs is 'unfinished business' and clearly states there is still a long way to go in achieving Indigenous rights to self-determination." --Sonia Smallacombe, senior lecturer, Charles Darwin University

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Barbara Ann Hocking is with the Faculty of Law at the School of Justice Studies at Queensland University of Technology. In 2005 she was awarded the Lilian Penson Fellowship at the Institute for Commonwealth Studies at the University of London.