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Today, the flat white is enjoyed by people the world over. But there’s good reason to think there’s a very local history behind this special brew.
Australia is a land of mystery to outsiders and locals alike, due to our strange and vicious animals, and politicians, respectively, writes Dave Donovan.
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
PwC was hired by the Victorian Treaty Advancement Commission to help determine who was an elder. After consulting 201 elders in 19 workshops, '80 per cent of those consulted wanted a way to challenge spurious elders'. This which not only turned out to be impossible, it called into question just how reliable were the 201 elders consulted in the first place!
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