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dc.contributor.authorTranter, Kieran
dc.contributor.editorOliver Mendelsohn
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T14:24:26Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T14:24:26Z
dc.date.issued1998
dc.date.modified2010-09-17T07:07:16Z
dc.identifier.issn0811-5796
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/34033
dc.description.abstractDrawing upon the work of Peter Goodrich, this article undertakes a semiotic reading of Justice Michael Kirby's judgment in the High Court's decision in Wik Peoples v Queensland (1996). It attempts to read the judgment from within the common law tradition. What is revealed is a way of travelling and a symbolic order removed from the established symbols of Australian colonialism. The common law declares itself sovereign. In exploring a way across the post-Mabo legal landscape it institutes a new colonialism, mapping and subjugating the old colonial order.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
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dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherFederation Press
dc.publisher.placeLeichhardt
dc.publisher.urihttp://digital.federationpress.com.au/3aj4a/9a4fq/toc
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom49
dc.relation.ispartofpageto71
dc.relation.ispartofissue2
dc.relation.ispartofjournalLaw in Context
dc.relation.ispartofvolume16
dc.subject.fieldofresearchLaw
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1801
dc.titleWaltzing Matilda: A Semiotic Reading of Wik
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.rights.copyright© 1998 Federation Press. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
gro.date.issued1998
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gro.griffith.authorTranter, Kieran M.


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