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Indigenous justice: July 2011

Books/reports

  • "Making actions speak louder than words" : Indigenous Summit into Deaths in Custody, 17-18 February, 1997
    Mackay and District Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Corporation for Legal Aid Services, [1997]
  • Hearing whispered voices : advocating for change in youth sexual assault services in the Northern Territory / Eun Ju Kim-Baker
    2010 Youth Minister's Round Table of Young Territorians, Northern Territory Government, 2010
    Summary: Outlines a range of recommendations intended to enhance the quality of sexual assault service provision for young people in the Northern Territory, in the hope of enhancing their quality of life and the collective welfare of the community
    http://www.youth.nt.gov.au/documents/Youth%20Round%20Table/2010/Community%20Based%20Projects/CBP%20Youth%20Justice%20Services%20FINAL%20-%20121210.pdf
  • Working with Indigenous offenders to end violence / Anna Macklin and Robyn Gilbert
    Indigenous Justice Clearinghouse, 2011
    Summary: Examines literature from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom and reports on the effectiveness of programs aimed at reducing violent reoffending, reporting on the development of culturally specific violent offender programs.
    http://www.indigenousjustice.gov.au/briefs/brief011.pdf

Book chapters

  • Breaking the cycle : addressing cultural differences in rehabilitation programmes
    Willan Publishing, 2011
    Summary: Discusses the development and implementation of the Breaking the Cycle program, a culturally appropriate art-based training program for women prisoners, designed and run by Aboriginal women.

Journal articles

  • Fine angers Ward family
    Koori Mail no. 505 13 Jul 2011: 13
    Summary: Family of Mr Ward, who died in Jan 2008 from heatstroke in a prison van, felt that justice was not done when the WA Government was fined less than the maximum penalty.
  • Future tense / Kirstie Parker
    Koori Mail no. 506 27 Jul 2011: 11-13
    Summary: Details consultations by Federal and NT Ministers with Top End communities at Maningrida, Angurugu (on Groote Eylandt) and Ngukurr, as part of a consultation process, aimed at gauging community response to the future of the NT Intervention after Aug 2012
  • Give reinvestment in justice a fair go / Roslyn (Rose) Carnes
    Koori Mail no. 505 13 Jul 2011: 24
    Summary: The high costs of imprisonment and the great overrepresentation of Aboriginal offenders are reasons for trying new methods to prevent crime and thereby reduce Government spending.
  • Govt Intervention review draws fire / Darren Coyne
    Koori Mail no. 505 13 Jul 2011: 5
    Summary: Discusses the Federal Government discussion paper ' Stronger Futures in the Northern Territory and criticises the Government for not translating the document into Aboriginal languages
  • Govt rejects UN review suggestions / Elizabeth Murray
    Koori Mail no. 504 29 Jun 2011: 30
    Summary: The Federal Government has adopted a Human Rights Framework, but has rejected certain recommendations by the UN Human Rights Committee, such as to compensate the Stolen Generations and to prohibit the use of tasers, undertaking merely to prohibit the use of excessive force by the police.
  • Incarcerations : the sad truth / Ray Jackson
    Koori Mail no. 504 29 Jun 2011: 27
    Summary: Discusses the recommendations of the report: 'Doing time - time for doing', including the need for court interpreters, cross-cultural training for the police forces and alternatives to custodial sentences
  • 'Intervention has made it worse' : UN
    Justice trends no. 141 Jun 2011: 7-8
    Summary: UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay reports that Indigenous leaders claim that since the Intervention there is greater discrimination and a lack of respect for the rights of Aboriginal people in the Nothern Territory.
  • NT Intervention four years on ... / Darren Coyne
    Koori Mail no. 504 29 Jun 2011: 1 + [3] p
    Summary: Discusses opinions about achievements of and future directions for the Northern Territory Emergency Response (the NT intervention), from viewpoints of the Federal Government and of Aboriginal community leaders
  • 'The elders know ... the white man don't know' : offenders' views of the Nowra Circle Court / Kathleen Daly and Gitana Proietti-Scifoni
    Indigenous law bulletin 7(24) May/Jun 2011: 17-21
    Summary: Outline the findings of their qualitative study of Aboriginal offenders and the Nowra Circle Court
  • The 'Intervention' legislation : 'just' terms or 'reasonable' injustice? Wurridjal v Commonwealth of Australia / Shelley Bielefeld
    Australian Indigenous law review 14(2) 2011: 2-23
    Summary: Argues that structural racism systematically disadvantages Indigenous peoples in the contemporary politico-legal environment with the most recent example of institutional racism being the Commonwealth Intervention, enacted in 2007 in the Northern Territory
  • The struggle to achieve real justice / Toni Hassan
    Koori Mail no. 506 27 Jul 2011: 25
    Summary: Outlines 40 years of Indigenous struggle for justice, since NAIDOC first flew the black, red and yellow Aboriginal flag

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