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Participatory Policy Development: Reflections on Designing the Strong Roots for Our Futures Program in Victoria

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we trace the journey to create the Strong Roots for our Futures Program, a government program to resource and support Traditional Owners to undertake a range of activities in areas where no state recognition existed. We provide a background to state recognition in Victoria before considering the program design, leading to an ...
Nell Reidy, Bhiamie Williamson, Jesse Williams   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Legal Pluralism as a Method of Interpretation: A Methodological Approach to Decolonising Indigenous Peoples’ Land Rights under International Law

Universitas, 2017
Ever since the arrival of the European colonisers, theories of international law have been used to justify the process of dispossession of indigenous lands.
Jonas Perrin
doaj   +1 more source

Relevant Issues of Exploration the Concept of Indigenous People in the International Legal Instruments and Ukrainian Legal Doctrine

Journal of Legal Studies, 2020
In this paper, the problem of determination of the legal personality of indigenous people as a subject of international law is considered. Hence, the problem articulated above leads to the issue related to aspects of practical realization and protection ...
Melnykova Dariia
doaj   +1 more source

‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
wiley   +1 more source

National and International Monitoring of Student Literacy and Numeracy Attainment: The Case for Rigorous Macro and Micro Analysis

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In her 2024 paper Are Australian students' academic skills declining? Interrogating 25 years of national and international standardised assessment data, Larsen compiled an impressive summary of major international (PISA, PIRLS and TIMSS) and national (NAPLAN) standardised assessments pertaining to literacy and numeracy.
Pamela C. Snow, Tanya A. Serry, Jennifer Buckingham, Lorraine S. Hammond, Stephen Dinham, Eamon Charles, Tessa A. Weadman, Nathanial R. Swain, Susan Hiland, Tessa Daffern   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Querying water co-governance: Yukon first nations and water governance in the context of modern land claim agreements

Water Alternatives, 2020
There exist few examples of functioning water co-governance systems where Indigenous and settler colonial governments work together to share authority for water on a nation-to-nation basis.
Nicole J. Wilson
doaj  

Finding an Indigenous Perspective in Administrative Law

Legal Education Review, 2009
Indigenous land laws, Indigenous perspectives on Anglo-Australian property law and native title are often taught as optional or even irrelevant to real property in Australian law schools.
Alexander Reilly
doaj   +1 more source

Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi, Casianus Gemoh, Denise Chapman, Edmund Hypolite, Simon Angok, Melanie Baak, Joel Windle   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sexual and Gender Identity in Indigenous Law

Oñati Socio-Legal Series
This study examines gender and sexuality in African Indigenous legal traditions, focusing on Ifa Jurisprudence, a spiritual-legal system of the Yoruba.
Aderonke Adegbite
doaj   +1 more source

Indigenous Australians and Legal Education: Looking to the Future

Legal Education Review, 1996
Indigenous people are under-represented in the Australian legal community. Some Law Schools have attempted to address the issue by increasing the opportunities for Indigenous students to obtain places in law schools.
Heather Douglas
doaj   +1 more source