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Year: 2024
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BorderLands
‘Closure’ at Manus Island and carceral expansion in the open air prison
borderlands: Australia’s Constitutional Nomopoly
Abstract This article reveals the central role played by the Australian constitution in producing the Australian debtscape through the establishment and maintenance of a colonial nomopoly. Australia’s colonial law is foundationally premised upon violent acts of invasion of Indigenous land and water, and because this continues without consent, the colonial state uses its monopoly of […]