Indigenous Australians, Social Justice and Legal Reform
Subtitle: Honouring Elliott Johnston
Publisher: Federation Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781760020613
Subjects: Aboriginal australians; Social justice; Law, australia; Law reform
Description: 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.--