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Balnaves Chair In Constitutional Law
The Indigenous Law Centre (ILC), formerly the Aboriginal Law Research Unit and Aboriginal Law Centre, is part of the UNSW Faculty of Law, Law Faculty at the University of New South Wales. It develops and coordinates research, teaching and information services in the multi-disciplinary area of Indigenous Australians, Indigenous peoples and the law, and publishes two major journals: the ''Australian Indigenous Law Review'' (formerly ''Australian Indigenous Law Reporter'') and the ''Indigenous Law Bulletin'' (formerly ''Aboriginal Law Bulletin''). It is the only Indigenous law research centre in Australia. History In early 1970, when the first Aboriginal Legal Service (NSW/ACT), Aboriginal Legal Service (ALS) was established, Hal Wootten, professor of law, was its first President. He operated the ALS from the UNSW Faculty of Law, UNSW Law School in its early years. When the Whitlam Government funded the ALS, staff found their time taken up with criminal representation, and had no t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UNSW Faculty Of Law
The Faculty of Law and Justice of the University of New South Wales is a law school situated in Sydney, Australia. It is widely regarded as one of Australia's top law schools. The 2021 QS World University Rankings rank the UNSW Law Faculty 13th in the world, first for undergraduate law in Australia, (with the Melbourne Law School only offering a Juris Doctor sequence) 2nd overall in Australia and 3rd in the Asia-Pacific region, and the 2021 Times Higher Education subject rankings also rank it second in Australia, making it the top ranked law school in New South Wales according to both tables, as well as being the top undergraduate Law school in the country. The Faculty comprises the School of Global and Public Law; the School of Criminal Justice, Law and Society; and the School of Corporate and Private Law. It further comprises 13 affiliated research and specialist legal centres, including a community legal centre, the Kingsford Legal Centre, as well as the Refugee Advice and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mabo V Queensland (No 2)
''Mabo v Queensland (No 2)'' (commonly known as ''Mabo'') is a decision of the High Court of Australia, decided on 3 June 1992.. It is a landmark case, brought by Eddie Mabo against the State of Queensland. The case is notable for first recognising the pre-colonial land interests of Indigenous Australians within Australia's common law.e.g. in ''Milirrpum v Nabalco Pty Ltd'' ''Mabo'' is of great legal, historical, and political importance to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians. The decision rejected the notion that Australia was terra nullius at the time of British settlement, and recognised that Indigenous rights to land existed by virtue of traditional customs and laws and these rights had never been wholly been lost upon colonisation. The Prime Minister Paul Keating praised the decision, saying it "establishes a fundamental truth, and lays the basis for justice". Conversely, the decision was criticised by the government of Western Australia and various minin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Native Title In Australia
Native title is the designation given to the common law doctrine of Aboriginal title in Australia, which is the recognition by Australian law that Indigenous Australians (both Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander people) have rights and interests to their land that derive from their traditional laws and customs. The concept recognises that in certain cases there was and is a continued beneficial legal interest in land held by Indigenous peoples which survived the acquisition of radical title to the land by the Crown at the time of sovereignty. Native title can co-exist with non-Aboriginal proprietary rights and in some cases different Aboriginal groups can exercise their native title over the same land. The foundational case for native title in Australia was ''Mabo v Queensland (No 2)'' (1992). One year after the recognition of the legal concept of native title in ''Mabo'', the Keating Government formalised the recognition by legislation with the enactment by the Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constitutional Recognition Of Indigenous Australians
Constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians has been campaigned for since 1910, including having an Indigenous voice to parliament enshrined in the Constitution of Australia. 1958: FCAATSI From its formation in Adelaide in February 1958, the Federal Council for Aboriginal Advancement, the first united national Aboriginal advocacy group, began a campaign to change the Constitution. Their efforts culminated the yes vote in the 1967 Australian referendum (Aboriginals), which changed the Constitution to include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in population counts, and allowed Federal Parliament to legislate specifically for this group. 1995: ATSIC report In February 1995, the ''Recognition, Rights and Reform'' report by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) stated that constitutional reform was a priority, finding massive support for recognising Indigenous Australians in the Constitution. On 16 October 2007, Prime Minister John Howard pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sexual Assault
Sexual assault is an act in which one intentionally sexually touches another person without that person's consent, or coerces or physically forces a person to engage in a sexual act against their will. It is a form of sexual violence, which includes child sexual abuse, groping, rape (forced vaginal, anal, or oral penetration or a drug facilitated sexual assault), or the torture of the person in a sexual manner. Definition Generally, sexual assault is defined as unwanted sexual contact. The National Center for Victims of Crime states: In the United States, the definition of sexual assault varies widely among the individual states. However, in most states sexual assault occurs when there is lack of consent from one of the individuals involved. Consent must take place between two adults who are not incapacitated and consent may change, by being withdrawn, at any time during the sexual act. Types Child sexual abuse Child sexual abuse is a form of child abuse in wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indigenous Australians And Crime
Indigenous Australians are both convicted of crimes and imprisoned at a disproportionately higher rate in Australia, as well as being over-represented as victims of crime. , Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander prisoners represented 28% of the total adult prisoner population, while accounting for 2% of the general adult population (3.3% of the total population). Various explanations have been given for this over-representation, both historical and more recent. Federal and state governments and Indigenous groups have responded with various analyses, programs and measures. Background Many sources report over-representation of Indigenous offenders at all stages of the criminal justice system. Also by chapter in html, seChapter 2/ref> , Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander prisoners represented 28% of the total adult prisoner population, while accounting for 3.3% of the general population. The links between lower socioeconomic status and the associated issues that come with i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Balnaves
Neil Richard Balnaves (5 May 1944 – 21 February 2022) was an Australian media executive and arts philanthropist. His production companies were responsible for bringing '' Big Brother'' and ''Bananas in Pyjamas'' to Australian television screens. He turned to philanthropy after a life-threatening accident in 2002, and founded the Balnaves Foundation in 2006, which by the time of his death had given to arts organisations. Early life Neil Richard Balnaves was born on 5 May 1944 in Adelaide, South Australia. He grew up in Penola in the south-east of the state, and had polio as a teenager, which crippled his right arm. His family's neighbours were Aboriginal, and he grew up with a positive perception of Indigenous Australians. Career Balnaves' media career started in advertising, in Adelaide in 1960, moving into senior roles in production companies. Balnaves worked in the media industry for over 60 years. He founded the Southern Star Group in 1988, and was executive chairma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Megan Davis
Megan Jane Davis is an Aboriginal Australian activist and international human rights lawyer. She was the first Indigenous Australian to sit on a United Nations body, and was Chair of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Davis is Pro vice-Chancellor, Indigenous, and Balnaves Chair in Constitutional Law at the University of New South Wales. She is especially known for her work on the ''Uluru Statement from the Heart''. Early life and education Megan Jane Davis was born in Monto. Her family moved along the Queensland Railway. Her ancestry is Aboriginal Australian ( Cobble Cobble, from south-east Queensland) and South Pacific Islander. She was brought up by a single parent, and one of her earliest interests was the United Nations General Assembly. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balnaves Foundation
Neil Richard Balnaves (5 May 1944 – 21 February 2022) was an Australian media executive and arts philanthropist. His production companies were responsible for bringing '' Big Brother'' and ''Bananas in Pyjamas'' to Australian television screens. He turned to philanthropy after a life-threatening accident in 2002, and founded the Balnaves Foundation in 2006, which by the time of his death had given to arts organisations. Early life Neil Richard Balnaves was born on 5 May 1944 in Adelaide, South Australia. He grew up in Penola in the south-east of the state, and had polio as a teenager, which crippled his right arm. His family's neighbours were Aboriginal, and he grew up with a positive perception of Indigenous Australians. Career Balnaves' media career started in advertising, in Adelaide in 1960, moving into senior roles in production companies. Balnaves worked in the media industry for over 60 years. He founded the Southern Star Group in 1988, and was executive chairma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Truth-telling
A truth commission, also known as a truth and reconciliation commission or truth and justice commission, is an official body tasked with discovering and revealing past wrongdoing by a government (or, depending on the circumstances, non-state actors also), in the hope of resolving conflict left over from the past. Truth commissions are, under various names, occasionally set up by states emerging from periods of internal unrest, civil war, or dictatorship marked by human rights abuses. In both their truth-seeking and reconciling functions, truth commissions have political implications: they "constantly make choices when they define such basic objectives as truth, reconciliation, justice, memory, reparation, and recognition, and decide how these objectives should be met and whose needs should be served". According to one widely cited definition: "A truth commission (1) is focused on the past, rather than in ongoing events; (2) investigates a pattern of events that took place over a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Makarrata Commission
The ''Uluru Statement from the Heart'' is a 2017 petition by Australian Aboriginal leaders to change the constitution of Australia to improve the representation of Indigenous Australians. The statement was released on 26 May 2017 by delegates to the First Nations National Constitutional Convention, held over four days near Uluru in Central Australia. The convention was held after the 16-member Referendum Council, appointed in December 2015 by prime minister Malcolm Turnbull and leader of the opposition Bill Shorten on 7 December 2015, had travelled around the country and met with over 1,200 people. The statement was issued after the convention, and calls for a "First Nations Voice" in the Australian Constitution and a Makarrata Commission to supervise a process of "agreement-making" and truth-telling between the Australian Government and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The statement references the second part of the 1967 referendum, which (after passing) broug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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