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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Indigenous Aspirations and Structural Reform in Australia by Harry Hobbs
Can the Australian state be restructured to empower Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and ensure that their distinct voices are heard in the processes of government? This book provides an answer to that question for Australia and guidance for states that claim jurisdiction and authority over the traditional lands of Indigenous peoples. By engaging with Indigenous peoples’ nuanced complex aspirations the book presents a viable model for structural reform. It does so by adopting an innovative approach: drawing on Indigenous scholarship globally it presents a coherent and compelling account of Indigenous peoples’ political aspirations through the concept of sovereignty.