Social construction of difference and the Prime Minister's proposal for the First Nations' voice

This week on Secondary Rules, Joshua Neoh and Ryan Goss talk about law and forgiveness in the ancient Greek plays of the Oresteia; federalism in the age of Covid; and touch on the PM’s speech about a referendum on the Voice.

• Paul Gewirtz, Aeschylus' Law
• Script of Aeschylus' Eumenides (final play in the Oresteia, 458 BCE)
• de Tocqueville on federalism   
• The PM’s Address to the Garma Festival last weekend
• Indigenous Voice Co-design Process, Final Report to the Australian Government, July 2021

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