Rights-Based Reconciliation Needs Renewed Action from Canberra

Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, Final Report of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation to the Prime Minister and the Commonwealth Parliament, December 2000.

The government responded 22 months after receiving the Report.

<http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/legcon_ctte/reconciliation/index.htm> at 9 May 2003.

Cornell Stephen , ‘The Harvard Project Findings on Good Governance’ delivered at Self-Government: Options and Opportunities, Speaking Truth to Power III, BC Treaty Commission, 14–15 March 2002, p.5 <http://www.bctreaty.net/files_2/pdf_documents/truth_3_book.pdf> at 4 May 2003.

See generally, Williams George , ‘Race and the Australian Constitution: From Federation to Reconciliation’, (2000) 38 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 643.

Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, above, ref. 1, p.105.

Commonwealth Government Response to the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation Final Report — Reconciliation: Australia's Challenge, September 2002, p.22.

Commonwealth Government Response, above, ref. 7, p.17.

Commonwealth Government Response, above, ref. 7, p.20.

See McKenna Mark Simpson Amelia Williams George , ‘With Hope in God, the Prime Minister and the Poet: Lessons from the 1999 Referendum on the Preamble’, (2001) 24 University of New South Wales Law Journal 401.

McKenna Simpson Williams , above, ref. 10, p.406.

McKenna Simpson Williams , above, ref. 10, p.409.

See the Constitutional Centenary Foundation ‘We the people of Australia …’ Ideas for a new Preamble to the Australian Constitution, 1999.

Foley Carol A. , The Australian Flag: Colonial Relic or Contemporary Icon, 1996, p.63.

Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Bringing them Home: Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families, 1997.

Commonwealth Government Response, above, ref. 7, p.10.

Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, above, ref. 1, p.105.

Commonwealth Government Response, above, ref. 7, p.20.

Official Record of the Debates of the Australasian Federal Convention (1891–1898), vol 4, Melbourne 1898, pp.228–9.

Quick John Garran Robert , The Annotated Constitution of the Australian Commonwealth, 1901, p.622.

Quick Garran , above, ref.20, p.623.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, 2000 Social Justice Report, Recommendation 13 <http://www.humanrights.gov.au/social_justice/sj_report/index.html> at 4 May 2003.

Commonwealth Government Response, above, ref. 7, p.21.

Commonwealth Government Response, above, ref. 7, p.21.

Commonwealth Government Response, above, ref. 7, p.21.

See Williams George , A Bill of Rights for Australia, 2000.

Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, above, ref. 1, p.106.

Commonwealth Government Response, above, ref. 7, p.23.

See Brennan Sean , Why ‘Treaty’ and Why This Project? Treaty Discussion Paper No. 1, 2002 <http://www.gtcentre.unsw.edu.au/Treaty%20Project%20Discussion%20Paper%201.pdf> at 4 May 2003.