The Jurisprudence of Denial

Members of the Yorta Yorta Aboriginal Community v Victoria [2002] HCA 58 (Yorta Yorta) (12 December 2002).

Commonwealth v Yarmirr (2000) 184 ALR 113.

Mabo (No. 2) (1992) 175 CLR 1, 46–59 (Mabo No 2) (Brennan J), 101 ( Deane Gaudron JJ ), 184 (Toohey J).

‘Because of the naive adventurism of the High Court, the economic and political future of Australia has been put at risk and our territorial integrity is under threat’, Hugh Morgan, as reported in the Sydney Morning Herald, 1 July 1993

Tickner Robert , Taking a Stand: Land Rights to Reconciliation, Allen & Unwin, NSW, 2001, pp.214–9.

Western Australia v Commonwealth (Native Title Act Case) (1995) 183 CLR 373 at 462 ( Mason CJ Brennan Deane Toohey Gaudron McHugh JJ ) ( Dawson J , concurring).

All further references to NTA refer to the legislation as amended by the Native Title Amendment Act 1998 (Cth).

See, International Committee on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD Committee), Findings on the Native Title Amendment Act 1998 (Cth), UN Doc CERD/C54/Misc.40/Rev.2, (18 March 1999) [9].

The State of Western Australia v Ben Ward & Ors [2002] HCA 28 (Ward) (8 August 2002) para 25 ( Gleeson CJ Gaudron Gummow Hayne JJ ).

eg under the Family Law Act 1975 (Cth), such as in CDJ v VAJ (No1) (1998) 197 CLR 172, also Ward, above ref 9, paras 65-71 ( Gleeson CJ Gaudron Gummow Hayne JJ ).

Ward, above, ref 9.

Wilson v Anderson [2002] HCA 29 (8 August 2002).

Mabo No.2, above, ref 3 at 104, 120 ( Deane Gaudron JJ ).

Yorta Yorta, above, ref 1 at paras 112, 114 ( Gaudron Kirby JJ ).

Yorta Yorta, above, ref 1 at paras 54-56, 89 ( Gleeson CJ Gummow Hayne JJ ).

Wik Peoples v State of Queensland (1996) 187 CLR 1, 84 (Wik) ( Brennan J ).

Wik above, ref 16 at 84 ( Brennan J ) citing Mabo (No. 2), above, ref 3 at 59, 69 ( Brennan J ) and Native Title Act Case, above, ref 6 at 422.

See Langton Marcia , Well, I Heard it on the Radio and I Saw it on the Television … Australian Film Commission, 1993.

The Members of the Yorta Yorta Aboriginal Community v The State of Victoria [1998] FCA 1606 at 119.

The Members of the Yorta Yorta Aboriginal Community v The State of Victoria, above, ref 19 at para 121.

Reynolds Henry , This Whispering in Our Hearts, Allen & Unwin, 1998, pp.xi–xii.

Reynolds Henry , Fate of a Free People, Penguin, 1996.