| Description |
xx, 315 pages : portrait ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
A powerful example: Introducing the Elliott Johnston lectures / Gus Worby, Hossein Esmaeili and Simone Ulalka Tur -- 1998: The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody: lessons for Wik / Frank Brennan -- 1999: Back to the future : aboriginal imprisonment rates and other experiences / Pat O'Shane -- 2000: A tragedy of dumb politics : does mandatory sentencing cause fundamental damage to the legal system? / Marcia Langton -- 2001: Cultural protection in frontier Australia / Jacqui Katona -- 2002: Power from the people : a community-based approach to indigenous self-determination / Larissa Behrendt -- 2003: From a hard place : negotiating a softer terrain / Irene Watson -- 2005: The effect of dearly Australian laws on aboriginal people : a personal perspective / Sue Gordon -- 2006: From rhetoric to reconciliation : addressing the challenge of equality for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in criminal justice processes / Tom Calma -- 2007: Human rights and indigenous reconciliation in Australia / Garth Nettheim -- 2008: Land rights, native title and the 'limits' of recognition : getting the balance right? / Graeme Neate -- 2009: Indigenous Australians and the law post apology : lessons learned from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody / Martin Hinton -- 2010: The taking of land without consent : the dispossession of aboriginal land in South Australia / Shaun Berg -- 2011: Engagement to support indigenous self-determination / Eddie Cubillo -- 2012: Elliott Johnston, social values and justice / Michael Kirby -- 2013: Putting meat on the bones of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples / Megan Davis -- 2014: Holding on to the 'hope of law' / Mark McMillan -- 2015: Why first laws must be in / Jacinta Ruru |
| Summary |
"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"--Back cover |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Johnston, Elliot
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Johnston, Elliott, 1918-2011
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Johnston, Elliott.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions.
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Festschriften -- Australia.
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Law reform -- Australia.
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Social justice -- Australia.
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Social justice.
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| Genre/Form |
Festschriften.
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| Author |
Esmaeili, Hossein, editor
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Tur, Simone, editor
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Worby, Gus, editor
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| ISBN |
9781760020613 |
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