Indigenous Law
Books on Indigenous Law are shelved at Call Number 346.94
Australian Native Title Anthropology : Strategic Practice, the Law and the State by Publication Date: (ANU Press, 2018) [ebook]
Indigenous Peoples, Consent and Rights by Publication Date: (Routledge, 2019) [ebook]
Overturning Aqua Nullius: Securing Aboriginal Water Rights by
Aboriginal peoples in Australia have the oldest living cultures in the world. From 1788 the British colonization of Australia marginalized Aboriginal communities from land and water resources and their traditional rights and interests. More recently, the national water reforms further disenfranchised Aboriginal communities from their property rights in water, continuing to embed severe disadvantage. Overturning aqua nullius aims to cultivate a new understanding of Aboriginal water rights and interests in the context of Aboriginal water concepts and water policy development in Australia.
Publication Date: (Aboriginal Studies Press, 2017)
- Fryer-Smith, Stephanie, The Aboriginal Benchbook for Western Australian Courts (AIJA, 2nd ed, 2008)
- Search for more books on Indigenous Law and Native Title in Australia.
- Bartels, Lorana, 'Indigenous-specific Court Initiatives to Support Indigenous Defendants, Victims and Witnesses' (Research Brief No 17, Indigenous Justice Clearinghouse, 2015)
- Connection to Country: Review of the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth) (ALRC Report 126, 2015)
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- Western Australian Legislation
Parliamentary Counsel's Office - the official WA Government site for access to Western Australian legislation, and the most up-to-date resource. - Federal Register of Legislation
The official Australian Government site for access to the most current Commonwealth of Australia legislation.
Other Legislative Instruments are also available on this website and include: Regulations (otherwise known as Statutory Rules), ordinances, orders, determinations and proclamations. - Native Title InfobaseFederal Court of Australia - Digital Law Library. Contains Australian material relating to native title and land claims including journal articles, books, book chapters, conference papers, reports and press clippings.
- YOKAIHuman rights initiative developed by the Bringing Them Home Committee (WA) and the WA Stolen Generations. YOKAI addresses the needs of individuals and families adversely affected by policies and practices of separating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples from their family, community, country, and culture.
- Law Society of Western Australia: Briefing PaperAccess to Justice Issues Faced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples in Western Australia (Oct 2017).
- Aborigines Act 1905 (WA)
- see also: Impacts of Law Post 1905 / Impacts of Law Pre 1905 (Kaartdijin Noongar - Noongar Knowledge)
- Native Title Act 1993 (Cth)
- Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972 (WA)
- Aboriginal Affairs Planning Authority Act 1972 (WA)
- Federal Register of LegislationSearch Commonwealth (Cth) legislation
- Western Australian LegislationSearch WA legislation
Stolen Generations
Australian Human Rights Commission, Bringing them Home: Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families (April 1997).
- See also Senate, Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, References Committee, HEALING: A Legacy of Generations (Report on the Stolen Generation Inquiry, 2000). This is the report of the Inquiry into the Federal Government's implementation of the recommendations made by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission in Bringing Them Home.
Video Materials
- Stolen Generations Johnson, Darlene and Tom Zubrycki, Stolen Generations (Ronin Films, 2000)
- Why Me? - Stolen Generations Cavaggion, Rick, Why Me? - Stolen Generations (Ronin Films, 2007)
Indigenous Legal Research
- University of Melbourne - Indigenous Legal Research
- The Law and The Lore - Working with Indigenous Australians
- Kaartdijin Noongar - Noongar Knowledge