Australian Indigenous people have suffered many injustices over the past 220 years and at
present seem to be regressing back to past policies and practices. This chapter will …

Historically, Australian governments have resisted recognising Indigenous rights, and the
courts have also often denied recognition of rights for Indigenous people. This article argues …

Australia is the only democratic country in the world without a national bill or charter of rights
in some form. 2 As demonstrated by the recent 'intervention'into Indigenous communities in …

Australia and Indigenous human rights making them more responsive to the circumstances
of Indigenous peoples. Second, the United Nations has begun to recognise the unique …

Looking back at Australia's colonial past to the reasons for discrimination against indigenous
peoples-indigenous peoples and the Constitution-achieving justice for indigenous peoples …

By the early 1990s the position of indigenous rights in Australia showed signs of progress. A
statutory body, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC), had been …

This conference will have heard a lot about Indigenous peoples' special relationships to
land, and about Indigenous rights in land in both traditional cultural terms and as a …

In 1967, Australians voted overwhelmingly in favor of removing from the Constitution two
references that discriminated against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Though …

Federal Government Formally Endorses the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Page 1 I NDIGENOUS L AW B ULLETIN March / April 2009, ILB V olume 7, Issue 11 6 fedeRal …

Although I am certain that there is a much greater level of'product recognition'in the
Australian community than there was at the beginning of the 1990s, it is also clear that …