The Revolutionary Potential of Walsh's Law

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Sir , Official Record of the Debates of the Australasian Federal Convention, 3rd session, (1898), 1661, 1663.

Judiciary Act 1903 (Cth).

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Reid Peyton

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Lisa

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John

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Ros Kidd's book Trustees on Trial: Recovering the Stolen Wages, will be published in mid-September by Aboriginal Studies Press.