The second question of the 1967 Australian referendum of 27 May 1967,called by the Holt Government,related to Indigenous Australians. Voters were asked whether to give the Federal Government the power to make special laws for Indigenous Australians in states,and whether in population counts for constitutional purposes to include all Indigenous Australians. The term "the Aboriginal Race" was used in the question.
John Leslie Toohey,AC,QC was an Australian judge who was a Justice of the High Court of Australia from 1987 to 1998.
Hindmarsh Island is an inland river island located in the lower Murray River near the town of Goolwa,South Australia.
The Hindmarsh Island bridge controversy was a 1990s Australian legal and political controversy that involved the clash of local Aboriginal Australian sacred culture and property rights. A proposed bridge to Hindmarsh Island,near Goolwa,South Australia attracted opposition from many local residents,environmental groups and indigenous leaders. In 1994,a group of Ngarrindjeri women elders claimed the site was sacred to them for reasons that could not be revealed. The case attracted much controversy because the issue intersected with broader concerns about Indigenous rights,specifically Aboriginal land rights,in the Australian community at the time,and coincided with the Mabo and Wik High Court cases regarding Native title in Australia.
The Hindmarsh Island Royal Commission was a Royal Commission into the nature of female Aboriginal religious beliefs relating to Goolwa and Hindmarsh Island in South Australia that was triggered by the Hindmarsh Island bridge controversy.
James Henry Muirhead AC KStJ QC was an Administrator of the Northern Territory and a Judge of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory.
Diane Robin (Di) Bell is an Australian feminist anthropologist,author and activist. She is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the George Washington University in Washington,D.C,USA and Distinguished Honorary Professor of Anthropology at the Australian National University,Canberra. Her work focuses on the Aboriginal people of Australia,Indigenous land rights,human rights,Indigenous religions,violence against women,and on environmental issues.
Founded in 1841,Corrs Chambers Westgarth is a leading,independent Australian commercial law firm. Its clients include national and international corporations,governments,banks and financial sponsors.
Catherine Margaret Branson is a former Australian judge and public servant. She was a judge of the Federal Court of Australia from 1994 to 2008,and then President of the Australian Human Rights Commission from 2008 to 2012.
Sir Richard Arthur Blackburn,was an Australian judge,prominent legal academic and military officer. He became a judge of three courts in Australia,and eventually became chief justice of the Australian Capital Territory. In the 1970s he decided one of Australia's earliest Aboriginal Land rights cases. His service to the Australian legal community is commemorated by the annual Sir Richard Blackburn Memorial lectures in Canberra.
Edward Picton "Ted" Mullighan,QC was an Australian judge who was known as an Indigenous rights advocate and protecting vulnerable people. He was known for his role as Commissioner of the Government of South Australia' Children in State Care Commission of Inquiry from 2004 to 2008.
Robert Shenton French is an Australian lawyer and judge who served as the twelfth Chief Justice of Australia,in office from 2008 to 2017. He has been the chancellor of the University of Western Australia since 2017.
The copyright law of Australia defines the legally enforceable rights of creators of creative and artistic works under Australian law. The scope of copyright in Australia is defined in the Copyright Act 1968,which applies the national law throughout Australia. Designs may be covered by the Copyright Act as well as by the Design Act. Since 2007,performers have moral rights in recordings of their work.
Sir George Coutts Ligertwood (1888–1967),commonly referred to as G. C. Ligertwood,was a Judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia.
Annabelle Claire Bennett is the Chancellor of Bond University and a former Judge of the Federal Court of Australia.
Charles Louis von Doussa was an Australian lawyer and politician. He was a member of the South Australian House of Assembly for Mount Barker from 1889 to 1902 and a member of the South Australian Legislative Council for the Southern District from 1903 to 1905. He was Attorney-General of South Australia and Minister for Education in the Jenkins government from 1903 to 1904.
Jane Hamilton Mathews was a judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales,a judge of the Federal Court of Australia and President of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.
Robyn Ann Layton is an Australian lawyer,who worked in a diverse range of legal roles,including as a judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia and judge of the South Australian Industrial Court. She was author of the South Australian Child Protection review known as "the Layton report" in 2003,and a member and then chair of the International Labour Organization's Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations from 1993 to 2008.
Daniel Roy Cregan is an Australian lawyer and politician who has served as Speaker of the South Australian House of Assembly since 12 October 2021. He has represented Kavel in the House of Assembly since the 2018 South Australian state election. Elected as a member of the Liberal Party,he resigned from the Liberal Party and moved to the crossbench on 8 October 2021.
Milpurrurru v Indofurn Pty Ltd was one of three Federal Court of Australia judgments in the 1990s involving the use of copyright law in Australia relating to Indigenous cultural and intellectual property (ICIP),the others being Yumbulul v Reserve Bank of Australia (1991) and Bulun Bulun v R &T Textiles (1998),or "T-shirts case".
