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

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

Edited by Hossein Esmaeili · Gus Worby · Simone Tur
The Federation Press October 2016

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ISBN-13
9781760020613
Publisher
The Federation Press
Publication
October 2016
Format
Paperback
Jurisdiction
Australia ? Countri(es) for 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.

Table of Contents

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)
Michael Kirby
Putting Meat on the Bones of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2013)
Megan Davis
Holding on to the ‘Hope of Law’ (2014)
Mark McMillan
Why First Laws Must Be In (2015)
Jacinta Ruru
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