Indigenous Legal Judgments

This book is a collection of key legal decisions affecting Indigenous Australians, which have been re-imagined so as to be inclusive of Indigenous people's stories, historical experience, perspectives and worldviews.

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Heather Douglas is a Professor at the Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne.

Nicole Watson is a Munanjali and Birri Gubba woman from south-east Queensland. Nicole is an Associate Professor and Director of the Academic Unit, Nura Gili Centre for Indigenous Programs, University of New South Wales.

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Foreword 1. Introduction Part 1: Sovereignty 2 *Milirrpum v Nabalco Pty Ltd (1971) 17 FLR 141.3 Cooper v Stuart (1889) 14 App Cas 286.4 Walker v NSW (1994) 182 CLR 45 *Part 2: Land and Sea Country 5 Tickner v Chapman (1995) 57 FCR 451. 6 Members of the Yorta Yorta Abriginal Community v Victoria [2002] HCA 58. 7 Akiba on behalf of the Torres Strait Regional Sea Claims Group v Commonwealth of Australia (2013) HCA 33. Part 3: Racism and Discrimination 8 Kartinyeri v Commonwealth [1998] HCA 22. 9 Commissioner of Corrective Services v Aldridge (No. 2) [2002] NSWADTAP 6. 10 Eatock v Bolt [2011] FCA 1103. Part 4: Family and Identity 11 Dempsey v Rigg (1914) St R Qld 245. 12 State of South Australia v Lampard-Trevorrow [2010] SASC 56. 13 Backford & Backford and Anor (No 2) [2017] FamCAFC 206. Part 5: Criminalisation and Criminal Neglect*14 Roach v Electoral Commissioner [2007] HCA 43.15 Nona v Barnes [2012] QCA 346.16 Bugmy v R [2013] HCA 37.17 Report of the Inquest into the Death of Miss Dhu (Perth, 16 December 2016).*