Sovereignty, Law, and Difference in Australia: After the Mabo Case.

The article discusses how judicial recognition of rights to land and cultural difference is limited by legal and political requirements to sovereignty. It also discusses the case "Mabo v. Queensland", a landmark case in the highcourt of Australia. The decision is considered very significant because it recognized lands previously owned by indigenous people before the colonization of Australia by Great Britain. It is also considered contradictory because it didn't clarify the extent and nature of the indigenous title it recognized.