Indigenous justice in Australia

Community and government interventions in Indigenous justice

Mediation

The process of mediation has the aim of reaching an agreement between all involved parties regarding an appropriate healing of a damaged relationship as a result of the criminal behaviour. All parties involved are anticipated to reach a settlement involving the reconciliation of inner conflict, reconciliation of the damage to the relationship, and reconciliation of the community.

• Aboriginal alternative dispute resolution services
  Western Australia Department of the Attorney General
• Mediation in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
  Queensland Department of Justice and Attorney-General
• Mediation in Aboriginal communities: familiar dilemmas, fresh developments
  Loretta Kelly, Indigenous law bulletin, 2002
• Dispute resolution at best practice intervention
  Chrissiejoy Marshall, Best practice interventions in corrections for Indigenous people conference, 2001
• Mediation: towards an Aboriginal conceptualisation
  Madeleine Sauve, Indigenous law bulletin, 1996
• Alternative dispute resolution in Aboriginal and Islander communities: the Community Justice Program's experience
  Christine Nolan. In Duncan Chappell and Sandra J Egger (eds), Australian violence: contemporary perspectives II, 1995