A Fatal conjunction : two laws, two cultures / Joan Kimm.

Sydney : Federation Press, 2005.

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Abused women -- Australia.

Women, Aboriginal Australian.

1. No safe places

2. Community silence and denial

3. A failure of the law

5. The oppression of being "civilized"

6. Moral violence

7. The "promise": customary law marriage

8. Rape

9. Different cosmologies

10. Yolgnu and Balanda

11. "What is truth?"

12. Cultural disintegration and violence

13. Reconciling rights in sentencing

14. Is anybody listening?.

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