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As Stringer argues,
Howard characterised his government’s assumption of absolute sovereignty as a departure from ‘laissez-faire liberalism’ and ‘light-touch government’, as though militarization and the supplanting of democratic principles with coercive authority were somehow at odds with the politics of neoliberalism … Despite the Prime Minister’s representation of it, this intervention sees the federal government assume absolute sovereignty in order to advance neoliberalism, rather than temporarily desist in its practice and promotion. (2007: 9)
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Strakosch, E. (2015). Authoritarian Paternalism. In: Neoliberal Indigenous Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137405418_8
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