The Recognition of Aboriginal Customary Laws
The Recognition of Aboriginal Customary Laws

Author: Australia. Law Reform Commission

Publisher: Australian Government Publishing Service

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 556

ISBN-13:

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Detailed examination of the scope for recognition of customary laws through existing common law rules; human rights and problems of relativity of standards; contact experience; constitutional aspects; marriage and family structures; recognition of traditional marriage; protection and distribution of property; child custody, fostering and adoption; the criminal justice system; customary law offences; police investigation and interrogation; issues of evidence and procedure including unsworn statements, juries and interpreters; proof of customary law including scope of expert evidence; taking of evidence including group evidence, secrecy and privileged communications; customary methods of dispute settlement; special Aboriginal courts and justice schemes; relations with police; traditional hunting, fishing and gathering practices; relevant case law and legislation considered throughout.

Forsaken
Forsaken

Author: British Columbia. Missing Women Commission of Inquiry

Publisher:

Published: 2012-10

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780991729951

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Australia and the Indonesian Incorporation of Portuguese Timor, 1974-1976
Australia and the Indonesian Incorporation of Portuguese Timor, 1974-1976

Author: Wendy Way

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 964

ISBN-13:

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Drawing upon never before released files of the Australian Federal Government's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) from the period 1974-76, this book documents the development and implementation of Australian foreign policy as the Timor crisis of 1975 happened. The 484 documents presented includes reports and correspondence from Australian overseas posts; policy papers and ministerial submissions; records of conversations between the political and diplomatic decision-makers; and cablegrams. Prepared by Historical Documents Unit of the DFAT as part of the Documents on Australian Foreign Policy series. Simultaneously released in hardcover. Foreword by Alexander Downer, Minister for Foreign Affairs. Includes photographs, colour maps, abbreviations and glossary, footnotes, biographical guide and other appendices, indexes of persons and subjects.

Inside the Canberra Press Gallery
Inside the Canberra Press Gallery

Author: Rob Chalmers

Publisher: ANU E Press

Published: 2011-10-01

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 1921862378

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Before television, radio, and later the internet came to dominate the coverage of Australian politics, the Canberra Press Gallery existed in a world far removed from today's 24-hour news cycle, spin doctors and carefully scripted sound bites. This historical memoir of a career reporting from The Wedding Cake of Old Parliament House offers a rare insider's perspective on both how the gallery once operated and its place in the Australian body politic. Using some of the biggest political developments of the past fifty years as a backdrop, Inside the Canberra Press Gallery - Life in the Wedding Cake of Old Parliament House sheds light on the inner workings of an institution critical to the health of our parliamentary democracy. Rob Chalmers (1929-2011) entered the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery in 1951 as a twenty-one-year-old reporter for the now-defunct Sydney Daily Mirror and would retire from political commentary 60 years later - an unprecedented career span in Australian political history. No parliamentary figure - politician, bureaucrat or journalist - can match Chalmers' experience, from his first Question Time on 7 March 1951 until, desperately ill, he reluctantly retired from editing the iconic newsletter Inside Canberra sixty years, four months and eighteen days later. As well as being considered a shrewd political analyst, Chalmers was a much-loved member of the gallery and a past president of the National Press Club. Rob Chalmers used to boast that he had outlasted 11 prime ministers; and a 12th, Julia Gillard described him as 'one of the greats' of Australian political journalism upon his passing. Rob Chalmers is survived by his wife Gloria and two children from a previous marriage, Susan and Rob jnr.