Indigenous Australians and the law / edited by Elliott Johnston, Martin Hinton and Daryle Rigney.

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Publication details:
Milton Keynes : Routledge-Cavendish, 2008.
Edition:
2nd ed.
Record id:
59364
Subject:
Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Contents:
1. Indigenous Australians and the legacy of European conquest: the ten years since 1997 / Tracey Bunda
2. The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody: looking forward, looking backwards / Elliott Johnston
3. Aboriginal women's laws and lives: how might we keep growing the law? / Irene Watson
4. Petrol sniffing / Wayne Chivell - 6. Aboriginal children in state care and the stolen generations: the South Australian Children in State Care Commission of Inquiry / P. Mullighan
6. Indigenous cultural expression and intellectual property / Terri Janke
7. Aboriginal customary law and the common law / Bruce Debelle
8. Indigenous Australians and sentencing / Tom Gray, Sally Burgess and Martin Hinton
9. Water: aboriginal peoples in Australia and their spiritual relationship with waterscapes / Neva Collings and Virginia Falk
10. Land rights, native title and indigenous land use agreements / Fred Tanner
11. Letters patent, native title and the Crown in South Australia / Daryle Rigney, Steve Hemming and Shaun Berg
12. Human rights and reconciliation in contemporary Australia )(1991-2006) / John Von Doussa and Tom Calma
13. Conflict-handling mechanisms in Australian reconciliation / Lester-Irabinna Rigney
14. Self-determination and the demise of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission / Megan Davis
15. Recognition of the indigenous people of Australia and their rights / Michael Dobson and Robin McNamee
16. Aboriginal representation in government / Chris Kourakis and Stephen McDonald.
Summary:
This revised and updated edition examines the legal, political and social developments that have taken place in Australia with regard to the interaction of indigenous Australians with the law.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781876905392
Phys. description:
xviii, 270 p. ; 24 cm