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- A
Treaty Between Our Nations?
Inaugural professorial lecture by Professor
Marcia Langton, Inaugural Chair of Australian Indigenous Studies, University
of Melbourne. At the end of the Twentieth Century, the public culture of Australia
remains, as it has for the previous two centuries, riven by disputes as to the
status of indigenous people in Australian civil society. I argue here that it
remains the case that the Australia polity is devoid of a clear and just status
for indigenous people within its ambit. Further, this continuing dispute is a
loose hanging thread in the web of our civil society. - Film
Australia's Mabo Study Guide
In 1981, Eddie Mabo and other Torres Strait
Islanders decided to fight for their ancestral right to land ownership on Mer,
which the British had renamed Murray Island. They took the Australian Government
to court. The case became known as the Mabo case. - Papers
of Edward Koiki Mabo
- Mabo
- Its meaning for Australia
Community Aid Abroad Report: Henry Reynolds,
Peter Yu. - 'The Spirit
of Mabo'
The land needs the laughter of children'. Native title and the
achievements of Aboriginal people. - Wik:
the Aftermath and Implications
UNSW Law Journal Issues Index - The
Meaning Of Wik
The Plain English Guide - Disinformation
article on mandatory sentencing
The cases are harrowing: Jamie Wurramara
sentenced to one year in jail for stealing A$23 worth of biscuits. Johnno Warramarrba
sentenced for stealing A$90 worth of stationery to a juvenile detention center,
dying in custody (suicide) just a week before his scheduled release. Both were
from Groote Eylandt, an outback mining region that is home to several indigenous
communities. The cases are only the tip of the iceberg: the result of draconian
two-strikes 'mandatory sentencing' laws promoted by Australian Northern Territory
Chief Minister, Denis Burke, who coldly claimed that "there will always be
deaths in custody." - Cherie
Booth tells UN of `cruel and inhuman punishment.
The complaint by Ms Cherie
Booth, QC, alleges "cruel and inhuman punishment". It says mandatory
sentencing laws in the Northern Territory and police practices associated with
them discriminate against Aborigines in comparison with their effect on other
people. - We ignore UN rights report
at our peril
Australia must recognise the increasing links between international
trade and human rights, writes Angela Ward (Associate Professor in International
Law at Essex University, and junior counsel to Cherie Booth, QC) - UN
report on mandatory sentencing
- 'Apartheid'
law under fire in NT
- Aboriginal
Deaths In Custody: A Dead Issue?
An excellent article that reveals how
the Australian media have failed to analyse why the deaths in custody of indigenous
people are still occurring. Written by Wendy Bacon & Bonita Mason - Royal
Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCIADIC)
.. I believe if
you want a policeman to make any admissions you've got to be fully armed with
everything you can get. And bear in mind they had a solicitor there sitting on
their shoulder while you were talking to them and if you think that you are going
to get anything out of these officers, you are entirely wrong. - Individual
death in custody reports
- The
Deaths in Custody Watch Committee (Western Australia)
- Violence
in Indigenous communities
Indigenous Australians are by far over represented
as both victims and perpetrators in all forms of violent crime in Australia. The
cost of this to their communities is horrific. Addressing such violence is not
quickly nor easily solved. This report summarises past research and consultations
on issues relating to the prevention and reduction of violence in Indigenous communities.
Promising approaches, and basic principles for effective intervention, are identified.
Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander Women's Taskforce on Violence Report (PDF) - The
South Australian Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement Inc
- Aboriginal
health: why is reconciliation necessary?
- Black
Search for Meaning: Aboriginal Suicide
- Report
of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
National Report
(Volumes I-V), Commonwealth of Australia, 1991 - Deaths
in Custody: 10 Years on from the Royal Commission
Trends & Issues in
Crime and Criminal Justice No. 203, Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra,
April 2001
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