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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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  1. Why the voice of Big Business is facing its biggest test
  2. Vital Signs: central bankers longing for growth that may not come
  3. Friday essay: punk's legacy, 40 years on
  4. Driverless cars need to hit the road come rain, wind or shine
  5. Governments must stop negatively framing policies aimed at Indigenous Australians
  6. Confusion about Senate rules could produce winners with small votes: Australia Institute
  7. Labor to release savings package
  8. Election podcast: Nick Xenophon on his play for Senate power
  9. Grattan on Friday: In Conversation with Nick Xenophon
  10. Vote 1 'Other': what's driving more voters to back a minor party this election
  11. The ghost of the 'greedy geezers' hovers over our super debate
  12. Seven's Olympic coverage could change the way we watch sport on our screens
  13. Can The Avalanches flourish in a pop music world remade in their own image?
  14. The Hobbit took our breath away: now it's the new normal
  15. Why we need to pay more attention to negative clinical trials
  16. Election FactCheck: has $100 billion been added to Australia's national debt under the current government?
  17. Naming the 'invisible perpetrator': a big step forward for media coverage of violence against women
  18. Flat-earth economists lead the hysteria over budget deficits
  19. Computing told us how close we came to a global pandemic of a drug-resistant flu
  20. Michelle Grattan in conversation: Australian voters disengaged and disillusioned
  21. Speed networking: how to win Euro 2016
  22. Corporate venture capital can pay, but only if you get the structure right
  23. Six reasons why food is a really big deal
  24. Lobbying 101: how interest groups influence politicians and the public to get what they want
  25. Patient advocate or doctors' union? How the AMA flexes its political muscle
  26. How Australians Die: cause #4 – chronic lower respiratory diseases
  27. 'Character' and 'behaviour' off the field should not be selection criteria for the Olympics
  28. Coal was king of the Industrial Revolution, but not always the path to a modern economy
  29. It's time we broke up the retail arms of Australia's Big Four banks
  30. Shedding the 'victim narrative' for tales of magic, myth and superhero pride
  31. A 700,000-year-old fossil find shows the Hobbits’ ancestors were even smaller
  32. How the Hobbits kept their tools as they shrank into island life
  33. Google's other bets' losing streak: Nest and Verily's problematic Silicon Valley CEOs
  34. China and the US: when worlds collide
  35. Clinton clinches Democratic nomination after big wins in New Jersey and California
  36. How do we weigh the moral value of human lives against animal ones?
  37. New DNA study confirms ancient Aborigines were the First Australians
  38. Weekly Dose: methotrexate, the anti-inflammatory drug that can kill if taken daily
  39. Will Australia's digital divide – fast for the city, slow in the country – ever be bridged?
  40. Democracy goes missing in action as politicians obfuscate, avoid and patronise
  41. Taking the city’s pulse: we need to link urban vitality back to the planet
  42. Election FactCheck: Has the Coalition presided over the most sustained fall in Australian living standards since records began?
  43. No big deal: there is little to fear from nanoparticles in food
  44. Computing changed the 'flow' of watching television
  45. Google wants to tap the second golden age of television
  46. Honour thy parents, lead thy nation: Turnbull and Shorten play to the family feeling
  47. Coal's formation is a window on an ancient world
  48. Business Briefing: how does Australia's policy costing body, the PBO, compare?
  49. Election 2016: the issues in non-metropolitan Australia
  50. The f-word enters the campaign and trips up both major parties
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