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Indigenous Australians, Social Justice and Legal Reform: Honouring Elliott Johnston

Indigenous Australians, Social Justice and Legal Reform: Honouring Elliott Johnston

Author: Hossein Esmaeili; Gus Worby; Simone Tur
Publisher: The Federation Press
ISBN: 9781760020613
Published In: October 2016
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: Australia ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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"Elliott Johnston was a most unusual lawyer…Coming generations of lawyers can be encouraged to reflect upon the causes of justice and equality that he so powerfully espoused.” – The Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG

Twenty-five years after Elliott Johnston’s thorough and prescient Report on the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, juvenile justice, freedom of speech, racial discrimination, human rights and a referendum on constitutional ‘recognition’ of Indigenous Australians remain subjects of contestation, national debate and international scrutiny.

In this collection, 17 distinguished Indigenous and non-Indigenous jurists, scholars and community leaders show common cause with Johnston. They pursue better ways of understanding social values, justice and equality expressed through issues of native title, incarceration rates, cultural protection, self-determination and rights of Indigenous peoples. They look to the law as a site of hope and an instrument of public education and principled change.

A powerful example: introducing the Elliott Johnston Lectures

Gus Worby, Hossein Esmaeili and Simone Ulalka Tur

The Royal Commission Into Aboriginal Deaths In Custody: Lessons For Wik (1998)

Frank Brennan

Back to the Future: Aboriginal Imprisonment Rates and Other Experiences (1999)

Pat O’Shane

A Tragedy of Dumb Politics: Does Mandatory Sentencing Cause Fundamental Damage to the Legal System? (2000)

Marcia Langton

Cultural Protection in Frontier Australia (2001)

Jacqui Katona

Power from the People: A community- based Approach to Indigenous Self-determination (2002)

Larissa Behrendt

From a Hard Place: Negotiating a Softer Terrain (2003)

Irene Watson

The Effect of Early Australian Laws on Aboriginal People: A Personal Perspective (2005)

Sue Gordon

From Rhetoric to Reconciliation: Addressing the Challenge of Equality for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples in Criminal Justice Processes (2006)

Tom Calma

Human Rights and Indigenous Reconciliation in Australia (2007)

Garth Nettheim

Land Rights, Native Title and the ‘Limits’ of Recognition: Getting the Balance Right? (2008)

Graeme Neate

Indigenous Australians and the Law Post Apology: Lessons Learned from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (2009)

Martin Hinton

The Taking of Land Without Consent: The Dispossession of Aboriginal Land in South Australia (2010)

Shaun Berg

Engagement to Support Indigenous Self-Determination (2011)

Eddie Cubillo

Elliott Johnston, Social Values and Justice (2012)