In Australian Communist Party v The Commonwealth, Justice Dixon famously asserted that the rule of law ‘forms an assumption’ of the Australian Constitution. This has been cited and repeated with such frequency that it … Read the rest “The Rule of Law as an Assumption of the Australian Constitution”
On 30 May 2017, the Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion announced 7.5 million dollars to help ‘finalise Aboriginal land claims over sea country’ in the Northern Territory (NT). These ‘land claims’, or rather negotiations, relate to the … Read the rest “A decade on: What happened to the historic Blue Mud Bay case (and why is it in the news again)?”
BY DYLAN LINO
A momentous thing happened on 26 May 2017. Gathered together in the shadow of Uluru for an unprecedented National Constitutional Convention, over 200 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander delegates ‘coming from all points of the southern sky’ … Read the rest “The Uluru Statement: Towards Federalism with First Nations”
Welcome to the June edition of the AUSPUBLAW Australian Public Law Events Roundup. We’d like to thank the Gilbert + Tobin Centre Social Justice Intern, Nakul Bhagwat for again doing an excellent job assisting us in compiling this events post.… Read the rest “Public Law Events Roundup June 2017”
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