Indigenous justice in Australia

Community and government interventions in Indigenous justice

Aboriginal customary law

• 'Equality before the law' in polyethnic societies: the construction of normative criminal law standards
  Luke McNamara, E law journal, 2004
• The recognition of Aboriginal customary law
  William Jonas, HREOC and International Lawyers Association (Australian Division) Workshop, 2003
• Submission to the Expert Seminar on Indigenous Peoples and the Administration of Justice, Madrid, Spain, 12-14 November 2003: Issue 3: Recognising Aboriginal customary law and developments in community justice mechanisms
  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission of Australia, 2003
• Aboriginal customary law
  New South Wales Law Reform Commission. Chapter 3 from Sentencing: Aboriginal offenders report, 2000
• Customary law for 40,000 years: a pilot study abandoned
  Christopher Howse, Best practice interventions in corrections for Indigenous people conference, 1999
• Recognition given to various aspects of Indigenous customary law in Queensland (PDF 186kB)
  Peter Bartholomew, Queensland Parliamentary Library research bulletin, 1998
• Sentencing in customary Australia: an overview of the issues
  Rick Sarre. In: Sentencing and indigenous peoples: roundtable proceedings, 1998
• Some problems and issues in the recognition of Indigenous customary law
  Rob McLaughlin, Indigenous law bulletin, 1996
• The recognition of Aboriginal customary laws
  Australian Law Reform Commission, 1986

Western Australia inquiry

• Aboriginal Customary Laws project | Reports, background papers and related articles
  Law Reform Commission of Western Australia

Northern Territory inquiry

• Report of the Committee of Inquiry into Aboriginal Customary Law: Report of Aboriginal customary law (PDF 128kB)
  Committee of Inquiry into Aboriginal Customary Law, Northern Territory Law Reform Committee, 2003
• Aboriginal communities and Aboriginal law in the Northern Territory (PDF 129kB)
  Northern Territory Law Reform Committee, background paper no. 1 for the Committee of Inquiry into Aboriginal Customary Law, 2003
• The recognition of Aboriginal law as law (PDF 55kB)
  Northern Territory Law Reform Committee, background paper no. 2 for the Committee of Inquiry into Aboriginal Customary Law, 2003
• Legal recognition of Aboriginal customary law (PDF 142kB)
  Northern Territory Law Reform Committee, background paper no. 3 for the Committee of Inquiry into Aboriginal Customary Law, 2003
• International law, human rights and Aboriginal customary law (PDF 105kB)
  Northern Territory Law Reform Committee, background paper no. 4 for the Committee of Inquiry into Aboriginal Customary Law, 2003