General resources
Recent lectures and videos
Indigenous constitutional recogntion (UNSW Thoughtleaders Playlist) with Megan Davis
Constitutions
Constitution of Queensland 2001 (Qld)
Australian Capital Territory (Self-Government) Act 1988 (Cth)
Northern Territory (Self-Government) Act 1978 (Cth)
Federal Convention Debates
Parliament of Australia, Senate, Records of the Australasian Federal Conventions of the 1890s
Official Record of the Debates of the Australasian Federal Convention (Legal Books, 1986) volumes 1–6
Reports
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, Recognition, Rights and Reform: A Report to Government on Native Title Social Justice Measures (1995)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Indigenous Social Justice: Strategies and Recommendations (1995)
Constitutional Commission, Final Report of the Constitutional Commission 1988 (1988)
Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, Going Forward: Social Justice for the First Australians (1995)
Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, Reconciliation: Australia’s Challenge (2000) chapter 10
Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, Roadmap for Reconciliation: Recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Rights (2000)
National Human Rights Consultation Committee, Report (2009) chapter 9
Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs, Two Hundred Years Later …: Report on the Feasibility of a Compact or ‘Makarrata’ Between the Commonwealth and Aboriginal People (1983)
Books
Guy Aitken and Robert Orr, Sawer’s The Australian Constitution (Australian Government Solicitor, 3rd ed, 2002)
Larissa Behrendt, Achieving Social Justice: Indigenous Rights and Australia’s Future (Federation Press, 2003)
Tony Blackshield and George Williams, Australian Constitutional Law and Theory (Federation Press, 5th ed, 2010)
Gerard Carney, The Constitutional Systems of the Australian States and Territories (Cambridge University Press, 2006)
Jennifer Clarke, Patrick Keyzer and James Stellios, Hanks’ Australian Constitutional Law (LexisNexis Butterworths, 8th ed, 2009)
Heather McRae et al, Indigenous Legal Issues (Lawbook, 4th ed, 2009)
John Chesterman and Brian Galligan, Citizens Without Rights: Aborigines and Australian Citizenship (Cambridge University Press, 1997)
Bede Harris, A New Constitution for Australia (Cavendish, 2002)
Barbara Hocking (ed), Unfinished Constitutional Business?: Rethinking Indigenous Self-Determination (Aboriginal Studies Press, 2005)
Helen Irving, To Constitute a Nation: A Cultural History of Australia’s Constitution (Cambridge University Press, revised ed, 1999)
Glenn Patmore (ed), The Big Makeover: A New Australian Constitution (Pluto Press, 2002)
Henry Reynolds, Aboriginal Sovereignty: Three Nations, One Australia? (Allen & Unwin, 1996)
Journal Articles
Megan Davis, ‘A Culture of Disrespect: Indigenous Peoples and Australian Public Institutions’ (2006) 8 University of Technology Sydney Law Review 135
Geoffrey Sawer, ‘The Australian Constitution and the Australian Aborigine’ (1966–67) 2 Federal Law Review 17
Adrienne Stone, ‘Australia’s Constitutional Rights and the Problem of Interpretive Disagreement’, (2005) 27 Sydney Law Review 29
George Williams, ‘Race and the Australian Constitution: From Federation to Reconciliation’ (2000) 38 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 639
Other Resources
Mick Dodson 'Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Australians', Papers on Parliament (PDF)
Patrick Dodson, Mahatma Gandhi Inaugural Oration, University of New South Wales, 30 January 2012
ABC Radio National, ‘Rudd Pledges Indigenous Recognition in the Constitution’, PM, 23 July 2008
Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies About the Constitution website
Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies, Fact Sheet 8.2: Section 25 of the Constitution