A Charter of (Some) Rights… for Some?

Stanner W E H , After the Dreaming (1991 reprint) 24–5.

Human Rights Consultation Committee (Vic), Rights, Responsibilities and Respect: The Report of the Human Rights Consultation Committee (2005) 39.

Anaya S J , Indigenous Peoples in International Law (2nd ed, 2004).

Section 19 is based on art 27 ICCPR which affords ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities the right to enjoy their own culture, profess and practise their own religion and use their own language.

Constitution Act 1975 (Vic) s 1A.

Constitution Act 1975 (Vic) s 1A(3).

Anaya S J , Indigenous Peoples in International Law (2nd ed, 2004) 108.

Ibid 109.

Established by the Magistrates' Court (Koori Court) Act 2002 (Vic).

Established by the Children and Young Persons (Koori Court) Act 2004 (Vic).

See, eg, Law Reform Commission of Western Australia, Customary Law, Human Rights and International Law: Some Conceptual Issues, Background Paper No 11 (2005) and Northern Territory Law Reform Committee, International Law, Human Rights and Aboriginal Customary Law, Background Paper No 4 (2003).