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Why Australia won't recognise Indigenous customary law

  • Written by: AJ Wood, Senior Lecturer in Law, Australian National University
imageMost people against recognising Aboriginal customary law think there’s only one law in Australia.AAP/Joe Castro

While the Australian Law Reform Commissions’s 1986 report on the use of customary law for Aboriginal people was a great initiative, it was, in hindsight, a notion well before its time. Although 30 years have elapsed since the...

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From little things: the role of the Aboriginal customary law report in Mabo

  • Written by: Lee Godden, Professor, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne
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The Recognition of Aboriginal Customary Laws report was released by the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) in June 1986, after an intensive, nine-year inquiry.

The report examined the interaction between two legal systems – one based in British law “received” at colonisation and the other in the customary laws of the...

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Law reports push piecemeal changes to native title, but still fall short

  • Written by: Harry Blagg, Professor of Criminology, University of Western Australia
imageCountry provides a site where Aboriginal and mainstream forms of law can come together and have dialogue – an outcome made possible by Eddie Mabo (L).AAP/NAA

June 2016 marks two significant anniversaries for the relationship between Australia’s Indigenous and settler populations. June 12 is the 30th anniversary of the Australian Law...

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The ACTU is a key Labor supporter but how much power does it actually have?

  • Written by: Ray Markey, Director of the Centre for Workforce Futures, Macquarie University

We see their spokespeople quoted in the papers and their ads on TV, but beyond that we know very little about how Australia’s lobby groups get what they want. This series shines a light on the strategies, political alignment and policy platforms of ten lobby groups that can influence this election.


The Australian Council of Trade Unions...

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