Sovereign citizens targeting Aboriginal Australians and putting native title claims at risk

Anthropologist Pascale Taplin says native title being likened to ‘slave’s title’, as conspiracists exploit concept of Indigenous sovereignty

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Indigenous Australians are backing out of participating in native title claims after being targeted by proponents of a racist conspiracy theory exported from the US, according to new research.

Senior anthropologist Pascale Taplin is the lead author of a new paper warning sovereign citizen conspiracists are exploiting the concept of Indigenous sovereignty to target Aboriginal communities, disrupting native title claims in the process.

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