Title
About the Condition of Aborigines in Australia (A propos de la Condition des Aborigines d'Australie)
Abstract
This paper examines the case of Lex Wotton, an Australian Aboriginal activist convicted of riot on Palm Island, and subsequently prevented from speaking publicly. The paper more generally considers the ways in which the Commonwealth of Australia, a constitutional democracy built on the rule of law, actively silences its poorest and most marginalised people, and denies Aboriginal peoples even the right to speak freely.
Disciplines
Comparative and Foreign Law | Criminal Law | Law
Date of this Version
1-5-2013
Recommended Citation
Chris Cunneen, "About the Condition of Aborigines in Australia (A propos de la Condition des Aborigines d'Australie)" (January 2013). University of New South Wales Faculty of Law Research Series 2013. Working Paper 3.
http://law.bepress.com/unswwps-flrps13/3
Comments
This paper was published in in S.P. Dassonville (ed). 2012. LE STATUT DES PEUPLES AUTOCHONES. Paris: Karthala, pp. 161-165. This paper may also be referenced as [2013] UNSWLRS 3. This paper may also be referenced as [2013] UNSWLRS 3.