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News Archives

2009
August
July
June
May
April
March
  • ILC Director, Megan Davis quoted in Sydney Morning Herald: “Chief Justice backs Aboriginal Treaty” (28 March 2008)
  • http://www.antar.org.au/blog/national-indigenous-representative-workshop/
  • February
    Adjunct Professor Ray Watterson, School of Law, La Trobe University spoke to the media follow the launch of the Australian Indigenous Law Review Special Edition 'Coronial Recommendations and the Prevention of Indigenous Death' at the Faculty of Law, UNSW on 18 February 2009.
    Following are links to the media interviews/coverage:
  • 'Coroner's Report into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody' ABC Radio National Breakfast Program, Fran Kelly Wednesday 18 Feb 2009
  • 'Coroner's recommendations ignored' PM Radio National Thursday 5 Feb 2009 6.40pm Reporter Sara Everingham
  • 'Government fails to make coronial changes' Sydney Morning Herald 8 March 2009 Reporter Leesha McKenny
  • 'Time to act on Aboriginal deaths' UNSW Website 17 February 2009
  • January
  • Megan Davis on Friday Panel – AM – Radio National to discuss National Representative body
  • Director writes on intersection between CERD and CEDAW in the context of the NT Intervention.
  • 2008
    December
    November
    October
    Centre Director gives paper on “Executive Leadership and Indigenous peoples” at ANU Centre for International and Public Law in Canberra (31 October, 2008). Centre Director speaks on panel on 2020 at Serious Women’s Business Conference in Melbourne (28 October, 2008).
    September
  • Centre Director gives paper with Dr Kyllie Cripps on Family Violence at AGs Family Violence Prevention Legal Service’s conference Melbourne.
  • Centre Director talks on United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples at the National Indigenous Lawl Conference in Melbourne (12 September, 2008)
  • Director's latest blog on Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation
  • August
  • Centre Director on Q & A, ABC TV
  • Australian Government response to the Senate Standing Committee on Environment, Communications, Information Technology and the Arts Committee Report into Australia's Indigenous visual arts and craft sector
  • July 2008

    Director makes submission to the proposed National Indigenous representative body

    Megan Davis writes on strategy for Indigenous recognition in the Constitution

    High Court upholds Federal Court ruling in Blue Mud Bay

    June 2008

    Centre Director Megan Davis speech, Thomson Human Rights conference: 'After the Apology and Constitutional rights'

    May 2008

    Erin Mackay writes on Resale Rights in the May edition of the Indigenous Law Bulletin

    Director's research cited in HREOC consultation paper on a new national rep body.

    Centre Director publishes chapter on ATSIC and self-determination in Indigenous Australians and the Law (2nd ed)

    Director writes on 2020 in the National Indigenous Times

    Centre Director presents UNRISD paper to Univeristy of Auckland seminar

    ILC and Human Rights Law Resource Centre Ltd (plus 100 other orgs) letter to Rudd, Smith, Macklin and McClelland on UN DRIP 

    April 2008

    Centre Director papers available also in University of New South Wales Faculty of Law Research Series

    Director writes on the importance of women's representation in a new national rep body

    Centre Director writes on 2020 Summit in Sydney Morning Herald

    March 2008

    Director speaks on Indigenous peoples and Constitutional reform at the launch of the Social Ventures Australia Indigenous Investor Circle 19 March 2008

    Director comments on Opposition's misreading of UN Declaration

    February 2008

    Centre Director comments on Apology in The Australian 12 February 2008 

    Read the Nation's apology to the Stolen Generation

    February 2008

    Sean Brennan and Peta MacGillivray report on the Blue Mud Bay native title litigation in the High Court of Australia

    November 2007

    Centre Director participates as panellist for Ruddock and Ludwig “Great Legal Debate”

    Megan Davis writes for the Australian Review of Public Affairs on Unfinished Business and the 2007 election

    Centre Director writes in Precedent on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People

    “Solutions need consultation” Centre Director writes in Online Opinion

    Hannah McGlade reports in the Indigenous Law Bulletin about developing Aboriginal justice models to address sexual assault.

    Director of the ILC, Megan Davis writes in the Indigenous Law Bulletin on the challenges of Indigenous women in liberal democracies

    October 2007

    Megan Davis writes for the National Indigenous Times on the preamble and reconciliation

    Centre Director writes in Sydney Morning Herald on PMs proposal for a referendum to amend the preamble

    Centre Director comments on PMs referendum proposalABC Radio National Breakfast with Fran Kelly, 17 September, 2007; "Rush will doom preamble, say experts” Sydney Morning Herald, 13 October 2007; SKY News Ausralia: First Edition, 12 October 2007; SBS Television: World News Australia, 12 October 2007.

    Centre Director writes for Australian Children's Rights News 

    September 2007

    Megan Davis writes on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples for National Indigenous Times and Online Opinion - Australia's e-journal of social and political debate

    ILC Director comments on the UN Declaration on Indigenous Rights: Radio Triple J (National Australia): Hack Triple J, 17 September 2007; Online ABC News, 17 September 2007; Triple J, 13 September 2007; Also: Radio ABC Western Queensland, Radio ABC 891 Adelaide, Radio ABC Darwin, Radio ABC 702 Sydney, Radio ABC 612 Brisbane, Radio ABC 936 Hobart, and Radio ABC 666 Canberra; SBS Television: World News Australia.

    August 2007

    ILC correspondence to Senate Inquiry on NT Emergency Response Bills

    Director writes on the Federal Government's response to the Anderson Wild Report in Uniken and Indigenous Law Bulletin.

    ILC Director contributes a chapter on rights and responsibilities in Jon Altman and Melinda Hinkson 'Coercive Reconciliation: Stabilise, Normalise, Exit Aboriginal Australia'.


    July 2007

    ILC Compilation on Howard's NT Plan - collected responses to the Government's intervention in the Northern Territory on Indigenous child sexual abuse

    Indigenous Peoples and the Law - this class is taught during the Winter Session by ILC Associates Garth Nettheim and Sean Brennan.

    Centre Director, Megan Davis writes in Indigenous Law Bulletin on ARC funded research project, “How Aboriginal women fare in liberal democracy”

    Director talks about ILC National Forum and Howard’s NT Plan on ‘Murri Voices’ 4KIG Townsville (4 July 2007)

    Director speaks on ‘Hack’, ABC Triple J about Howard’s NT plan (28 June 2007)

    Indigenous Law Bulletin Volume 6 Issue 27 is released.

    Volume 11.1 of the Australian Indigenous Law Review is published

    June 2007

    ILC Director Comments on Howards NT Plan
    Megan Davis comments on the Federal Government's intervention in the Northern Territory on Indigenous child sexual abuse:
    22 June 2007 'Sydney Morning Herald'; 28 June 2007 'Hack' ABC Triple J Radio; 4 July 2007 ‘Murri Voices’ Radio 4KIG Townsville; 9 July 2007 'Koori Mail'; 18 July 2007 'Murri Voices' Radio 4K1G Townsville; 9 August 2007 'The Scotsman'; 10 August 2007 ABC Radio National The World Today.

     ILC Director Megan Davis writes on Parliamentary Inquiries into FTAs and Indigenous Issues in Journal of Indigenous Policy.

    May 2007

    Centre Director attends Their Spirit Still Shines ceremony, 27 May 2007 and Reconciliation Australia, One Future Forum in Bowral, NSW (27-30 May)

    Centre Director writes in National Indigenous Times on the importance of consultation with Indigenous communities

    ILC Centre Associate, Rachel Davis attends the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York for ILC; its theme being “Indigenous land, resources and territories”

    Centre Associate Emeritus Professor Garth Nettheim gives Elliott Johnston Tribute Lecture,  “Human Rights and Indigenous Reconciliation in Australia” Flinders University, Adelaide, 15th May

    Centre Associate Emeritus Professor Garth Nettheim gives Occasional Lecture, UNSW Faculty of Law Graduation Ceremony, 4th May 2007

    April 2007

    Indigenous Law Bulletin Volume 6 Issue 26 – March-April 2007 – is released. This edition focuses on issues surrounding native title.

    Centre Director writes on Parliamentary Inquiries on Free Trade Agreements and Indigenous Peoples for the Journal of Indigenous Policy

    Centre Director publishes article on ‘The Recognition of Aboriginal Customary Law and International Law developments’ in International Law Association’s (Australian Branch) Indigenous Peoples: Issues in International and Australian Law

    Centre Director presents case study on Canada at United Nations Research Institute Social Development Workshop, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland (2-3 April 2007)

    Centre Director’s paper on ‘Indigenous women and youth in the Pacific states of the Commonwealth’  presented at Commonwealth Policy Studies Unit Pan-Commonwealth Workshop on  ‘Addressing the Marginalisation of Indigenous and Tribal Women’ 12-13 April 2007, Marlborough House, London

    February 2007

    Centre Director speaks on ABC Radio National Australia Talks on National Implications of Palm Island

    Indigenous Law Bulletin Volume 6 Issue 25 – February 2007 – is released.

    Indigenous Law Centre Associate Stephen Hagan attends UN HABITAT conference on Indigenous peoples and urbanisation on behalf of Centre Director

    Centre Director publishes in University of Technology Sydney Law Review on institutional racism in Australia’s public institutions

    Centre Director appointed as an Australian member, International Law Association Indigenous Rights Committee

    January 2007

    Indigenous Law Bulletin Volume 6 Issue 24 – December-January 2007 – is released.
    Aboriginal Women
    ILC Director, Megan Davis, writes in Indigenous Law Bulletin on ARC funded research project, “How Aboriginal women fare in liberal democracy”.

     

     


     
       





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