The Challenge of Recognition

Law Reform Commission of Western Australia, Aboriginal customary laws – the interaction of Western Australian law with Aboriginal law and culture, Final Report Project 94 (2006).

Commonwealth, Parliamentary Debates , House of Representatives, 28 November 2006, 66 ( Johnson MA Mr ).

Ibid 70.

Ibid 75 ( Garrett P Mr ); 73 ( Kerr DA Mr ). See also, Tom Calma Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, The Integration of Customary Law into the Australian Legal System, address to the Globalisation, Law and Justice Forum, University of Western Australia (27 October 2007); Evans Chris , ‘Real Causes of Violence Ignored’, media release (8 November 2006); Dunkerley Susanna , ‘Customary law defence removed from sentencing’ National Indigenous Times (8 December 2006).

LRCWA, above n 1, 9–10.

Recommendation 36.

Recommendation 38.

Recommendation 17.

For a full list of recommendations addressing family violence and child abuse see: LRCWA, above n.1, 297–298.