Traditional Hunting

Yanner v Eaton (1999) 201 CLR 351; Native Title Act 1993 (Cth) s 223(2).

See, eg, Ponte Fernando , It Has Nothing to Do with Hunting: An Examination of the Attitudes and Values Associated with the Recognition of Indigenous Hunting Rights (PhD Thesis, James Cook University, 1996) 354–7; various submissions focusing on animal welfare made on the draft Sustainable Harvest of Marine Turtles and Dugongs in Australia — a National Partnership Approach (2005) prepared by the Marine and Coastal Committee Taskforce for the Department of Environment and Heritage.

For more details see Thiriet Dominique , ‘Tradition and Change — Avenues for Improving Animal Welfare in Indigenous Hunting’ (2004) 11 James Cook University Law Review 159, 164–7.

See the incorporation of humane standards in Hopevale Aboriginal Council and Melissa Nursey Bray, Guugu Yimmithirr Bama Wii: Ngawiya and Girrbithi (A Turtle and Dugong Hunting Management Plan), Prevention of Cruelty (1999) ch 14.

Animal Care and Protection Act 2001 (Qld) s 8(1).

Animal Welfare Act 1999 (NT) s 79(2).

Animal Welfare Act 1992 (ACT); Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1979 (NSW); Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1985 (SA); Animal Welfare Act 1993 (Tas); Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1986 (Vic); Animal Welfare Act 2002 (WA).

Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC), The Recognition of Aboriginal Customary Laws, Report No 31 (1986) vol 2.

Ibid 123.

Steiner Henry J Alston Philip , International Human Rights in Context — Law, Politics and Morals (2nd ed, 2000); Piotrowicz Ryszard Kaye Stuart , Human Rights in International and Australian Law (2000).

RDA s 9.

Chesterman J , ‘Balancing Civil Rights and Indigenous Rights: Is There a Problem?’ (2002) 8(2) Australian Journal of Human Rights 125, 135.

Animal Care and Protection Act 2001 (Qld) s 8(1).

Thiriet Dominique , ‘Out of the ‘Too Hard Basket’ — Traditional Hunting and Animal Welfare’, submitted to the Macquarie Law Review.

Letter from Cameron Dick, Senior Ministerial Policy Adviser, Office of the Minister for Primary Industries and Rural Communities to Dominique Thiriet, 15 May 2003.

RDA s 8(1).

Thiriet , above n 3, 171–2.

Ibid, 168–9.

Campbell v Arnold (1982) 56 FLR 382; Firestone Jeremy Lilley Jonathan , ‘Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling and the Right to Practice and Revitalize Cultural Traditions and Customs’, (2005) 8 Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy 177, 216; also ALRC, n 8 above, 180–2.

See Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1979 (NSW) s 24(1)(c) and Animal Care and Protection Act 2001 (Qld) s 45. The exemption is specifically excluded under the Animal Welfare Act 1999 (NT) s 79(2). In other jurisdictions, the legislation generally provides an exemption for practices conducted according to a Code of Practice.

Chesterman , above n 12, 136.

Ponte , above n 2, 258.

Chesterman , above n 12, 137.

Ibid 139–40.

For instance, under the Game and Feral Animal Control Act 2002 (NSW), wild pigs can be hunted by anyone with a bow and arrows.

See for instance Hales v Jamilmira [2003] NTCA 9; The Queen v GJ [2005] NTCCA 20; also Bryant Gerard , ‘Promised Marriages — The Jackie Pascoe Case’ (2003) 5(23) Indigenous Law Bulletin 20.

See for instance Watson v The Queen (1986) 22 A Crim R 308; also McGlade Hannah , ‘Our Own Backyards’, (2003) 5(23) Indigenous Law Bulletin 6; Anderson Alison , ‘Women's Rights and Culture: An Indigenous Woman's Perspective on the Removal of Traditional Marriage as a Defence under Northern Territory Law’ (2004) 6(1) Indigenous Law Bulletin 30.

ALRC, above n 8, vol 1, 43.

Sentencing Amendment (Aboriginal Customary Law) Act 2004 (NT). Act No 1 of 2005.

See McGlade and also Anderson, above n 27.

Animal Welfare Act 1999 (NT) s 79(2). The CSIRO's Model Code of Practice for the Welfare of Animals (Livestock at Slaughtering Establishments) provides guidance but is unenforceable.

Kymlicka Will , ‘Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights’ (1995); see also Chesterman , above n 12, 140–1.

Chesterman , above n 12, 141.

Hopevale Aboriginal Council and Bray M Nursey , above n 4.