Indigenous Legal Relations in Australia
Indigenous Legal Relations in Australia considers Indigenous peoples contact with Anglo-Australian law, and deals primarily with the problems the imposed law has had in its relationship with Indigenous people in Australia. The book is comprehensive in scope and covers key issues relating to sovereignty, jurisdiction and territorial acquisition; family law and child protection; criminal law, policing and sentencing; land rights and native title; cultural consitutional law; social justice,...
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Indigenous Legal Relations in Australia considers Indigenous peoples contact with Anglo-Australian law, and deals primarily with the problems the imposed law has had in its relationship with Indigenous people in Australia. The book is comprehensive in scope and covers key issues relating to sovereignty, jurisdiction and territorial acquisition; family law and child protection; criminal law, policing and sentencing; land rights and native title; cultural consitutional law; social justice, self-determination and treaty issues.
PrefaceTable of CasesTable of StatutesPt. 1 The law of the Colonisers 1Ch. 1 Dispossession and Colonisation 3Ch. 2 Warfare to Welfare: Genocide to Racial Discrimination 20Ch. 3 Reparation and Redress 43Ch. 4 Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children's Welfare 65Pt. 2 Equal before the Law: Criminalisation 89Ch. 5 Juvenile Justice 91Ch. 6 Criminalisation and Policing in Indigenous Communities 113Ch. 7 Courts, Sentencing and Punishment 137Pt. 3 Law, Land and Culture 169Ch. 8 Land Rights 171Ch. 9 Native Title 188Ch. 10 Protecting Culture Robynne Quiggin Quiggin, Robynne 207Pt. 4 Law, Rights and Governance 237Ch. 11 Racial Discrimination and the Law 239
