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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice

QIFVLS Gala Dinner

Mick Gooda addresses lateral violence at Queensland Indigenous Family Violence Legal Service (QIFVLS) Gala Dinner

9 May, 2013

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice

7th National Indigenous Legal Conference

I would like to begin by acknowledging the Whadjuk Noongar people and I want to thank them, the traditional owners of the land on which we meet, for allowing us to gather on their country.

6 October, 2012

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice

Over-coming discrimination against Indigenous people

From the moment Australia was colonised Indigenous peoples have suffered discrimination at the hands of a legal system imported into this land. Not only were our own laws cast aside, but the new laws discriminated against us - and did so because of our race. In 1997, while there has been movement away from former policies of assimilation, removal and protection, the dominant legal system still discriminates against us.

16 September, 1997

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Law Seminar 2008: Housing and Homelessness – What’s Human Rights got to do with It? by Cassandra Goldie

back to Human Rights Law Seminars Housing and Homelessness – What’s Human Rights got to do with It? By Cassandra Goldie 1 Paper presented at the Homelessness and Human Rights Seminar Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission 12.30 – 2pm, Monday 7 April 2008 133 Castlereagh Street...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice

Native Title and the Treaty Dialogue

It is very fitting that we discuss native title in the context of a treaty just one month after a very significant native title decision, the Miriuwung Gajerrong decision [1], has been handed down by the High Court. 406 pages of honed legal reasoning cut through almost the entire history of non-Indigenous land law in Western Australia to decide the final shape that native title would take for the Miriuwung Gajerrong people.

Commission - General

President speeches: Protecting the human rights of Indigenous people and communities

Protecting the human rights of Indigenous people and communities The Hon Catherine Branson QC President, ºÚÁÏÇ鱨վ National Indigenous Legal Conference, Adelaide, 25 September 2009 1 Introduction I would like to acknowledge the Kaurna peoples, the traditional owners of the...

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Law Seminar 2008: Australia and International Human Right: Coming in from the Cold by the Hon Robert McClelland MP

back to Human Rights Law Seminars THE HON ROBERT McCLELLAND MP Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Australia and International Human Right : Coming in from the Cold HREOC, The Hearing Room, Level 8, 133 Castlereagh St, Sydney 23 May 2008, 12.45pm First, may I acknowledge the traditional...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice

The Integration of Customary Law into the Australian legal system

Good afternoon, I’d like to begin by acknowledging the Noongar people, the traditional owners and custodians of the land where we are gathered today, and pay my respects to their elders. I’d also like to acknowledge my distinguished fellow speakers. My presentation today is focused on customary law. I will refer to Aboriginal customary law, though the points that I will make are equally relevant to Torres Strait Islanders and to their distinct systems of law and governance.

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Law Seminar 2007: Stolen Wages - The Way Forward by Jonathon Hunyor

What I will talk about today is the way in which the Racial Discrimination Act (‘the RDA’) has been used by Aboriginal people to seek a remedy for the injustice of underpayment of wages.

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Human Rights and Climate Change: A Tragedy in the Making - Hon John von Doussa QC

back to Human Rights Law Seminars HREOC Seminar Series for the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 20 August, 2008 ‘Human Rights and Climate Change: A Tragedy in the Making’ The Hon John von Doussa QC President of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission I would...

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Dignity, Fairness and Good Government: The Role of a Human Rights Act - Lord Bingham

It would clearly test to destruction the tolerance of the ordinary red-blooded Australian to have a Pom getting off the plane from London and telling them how to run their country. So I shall not presume to say how the current human rights debate in this country should be resolved. But perhaps I may contribute some thoughts, prompted by our own experience in the United Kingdom, acknowledging as I do so that the Australian context, while in some ways similar, is in others significantly different.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice

Fourth Edition of Indigenous Legal Issues: Commentary and Materials

I would like to acknowledge the Gadigal People, the traditional owners and custodians of the Eora Nation and pay my respects to their elders past and present.

Legal

Law Seminar 2007: Indigenous Stolen Wages Inquiry held by Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee Senator Russell Trood

Speaking Notes for a seminar organised by Human Rights and Equal Rights Commission on the topic of Indigenous Stolen Wages Inquiry held by Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee by Senator Russell Trood Senator for Queensland 9 March 2007 Inquiry Initiated by Senator Bartlett, Democrat...