Right to Vote
What is 1962?
In 2010, Ken Wyatt became the first indigenous person elected to this government body in Australia.
What is the House of Representatives
In Mabo v. Queensland (No. 2), the High Court recognized this property right as part of Australian common law.
What is native title?
The commission that issued a 1986 report on the use of customary law by Aboriginal people
What is the Australian Law Reform Commission?
There are more than 200 of these spoken by indigenous people in Australia.
What is languages?
Section 41 of the Australian Constitution allowed indigenous people to vote in federal elections only if indigenous people were able to vote in these elections.
What is state elections?
The Aboriginal Land Rights Act of 1976 sought to increase equality for indigenous rights and reclaim this taken forcibly by the British.
What are lands?
In Kruger v. Commonwealth, the High Court determined that the Australian government acted lawfully during this dark era of Aboriginal history.
What are the Stolen Generations?
One of the areas the Indigenous Legal Issues Committee focuses on
What is
Native title
Land rights
Aboriginal customary law
Indigenous legal education
Access to justice
Indigenous justice initiatives
Indigenous intellectual property, heritage and knowledge protection
Racial discrimination
There are about 500 distinct these living in Australia.
What are indigenous groups?
In 1949, these indigenous people were given the right to vote.
Who are ex-service members?
This inspired the passage of the Aboriginal Land Rights Act (1976).
What is the Aboriginal Land Rights Movement?
The High Court threw out an Aboriginal man's death sentence in this case, seen as an early victory for the rights of Aborigines.
What is Tuckiar v. the King?
Response to Aboriginal people's being incarcerated at higher rates than non-Native Australians
What are indigenous justice initiatives?
Australian indigenous people include aboriginals and this island group of people.
Who are the Torres Strait Islanders?
In 1965, this territory, located in the northwestern part of Australia, was the last to offer indigenous people the right to vote in State elections.
What is Queensland.
The Native Title Amendment Act of 1998 is also referred to this numbered plan.
What is the 10-point plan?
This case brought by a group of indigenous peoples clarified native title issues by declaring that statutory leaseholds extinguished some, but not all, indigenous rights to land.
What is Wik Peoples v. Queensland?
What is the percentage of indigenous people living Australia?
What is 2 percent?
What act was repealed in 1967?
What is Section 127 of the Australian Constitution?
The Commission Act of 1989 created the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC), which gave indigenous people the ability to do what?
What is allowed to participate in the way the government affects their lives?
Milirrpum v. Nabalco established this legal theory of "empty land" in the Australian common law.
What is the Terra Nullius doctrine?
The Australian Labour party pledged this amount of money to battle Indigenous disadvantage in the Australian justice system?
What is $107M?
How many indigenous senators has Australia had?
What is 5?