Native Title
Native Title: A Simple Guide
A Paper for those who wish to understand Mabo , the Native Title Act, Wik and the Ten Point Plan.
Native Title and Aboriginal Australians: Submission to Parliament
The Human Rights Council of Australia is of the view that the amendments to the Native Title Act 1993 (the NT Act) proposed by the Native Title Amendment Bill 1997 (the NTA Bill) will bring greater legal uncertainty and more litigation, not the greater certainty which the Government claims.
Reconciliation
Engaging the NGO Sector in Reconciliation, Report 1997
This is the final report to the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation on the CAR/HRCA twelve month project to engage the NGO community in the reconciliation process.
Engaging the NGO Sector in Reconciliation, Report 1997
Self-Detemination
Right to Self-Determination
This paper proposes a mechanism for the realization of the right to self-determination. It recommends:
• The establishment of a Self-determination Commission comprising representatives of the UN member States;
• The establishment of an office of a High Commissioner for Self-determination;
• The appointment of an Expert Group on Self-determination to serve as an advisory body to the Commission.
Conference on Self Determination, Geneva 2004
The acceptance of human rights standards and procedures to enforce them has always been a lengthy and challenging process.
Northern Territory Intervention
New Perspectives: The Northern Territory Intervention and Human Rights
The identification of growing child sexual abuse in remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory, linked in large part to substance, particularly alcohol, abuse, exploded into the Australian media in 2006 and 2007. The issues, including violence against Aboriginal women, were not new and had been sporadically, mostly sensationally, reported over time.