Two decades after the High Court of Australia recognised the existence of native title rights, the Federal Court handed down a decision in the Torres Strait Regional Seas case. This has immense importance to Torres Strait islanders.
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50 years of TIME in Australia (and a few less-important islands, too)
TIME magazine is celebrating 50 years of publication in Australia (well, the “South Pacific”, but it pretty much ignores everyone else), including a tribute to its pick of most influential Aussies of the last five decades: Robert Menzies, Germaine Greer, Victor Chang, Eddie Mabo, and Tim Flannery.
Garnaut: Climate change threatens Mabo’s legacy
Faced with rising sea waters, the people of Indigenous activist Eddie Mabo’s island, Mer, have had to move to higher ground. Man-made climate change could literally wash away everything he fought for, says Ross Garnaut.
The High Court: conservatives rule, OK?
Thomas v Mowbray, the High Court’s decision yesterday to uphold the Howard government’s anti-terror laws, will be remembered by historians and legal scholars for two things: that this was one of the most conservative judgments in the Court’s one hundred and four year history, and that Justice Michael Kirby’s full blooded dissent will be forever remembered as one of the great Australian cries for liberty.
