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'We talk about sovereignty a lot. We demandit be recognised and we have it on our T-shirts and so forth. But what is it really?'  (Introduction)

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  • Epigraph: I. early I4c., 'great, superior, supreme' from Old French soverain 'highest, supreme, chief', from Vulgar Latin 'superanus 'chief, principal' (source also of Spanish soberano, Italian soprano), from Latin super 'over' 2. of remedies of medicines; 'potent in high degree' 
     

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    y separately published work icon Meanjin Slave to the Algorithm vol. 77 no. 4 Summer 2018 15360812 2018 periodical issue

    'Meanjin did not publish a piece of fiction until 1943 - 'we still strive to talk poetry', founding editor Clem Christesen observed, perhaps tellingly, in the first Meanjin of December 1940.' (Jonathan Green Editorial introduction)

    2018
    pg. 25-32
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