There is renewed momentum towards the establishment of a new national representative body for Indigenous Australia that gives due representation to diverse voices in order to be more sustainable than earlier models. Megan Davis writes that there is a strong argument to be made for Indigenous women's representation in any new national representative body.

Several different systems of investigation into violent death exist in Australia, such as those conducted by the police, coroners and the National Homicide Monitoring Program. However, none of these look at domestic and family violence-related fatalities specifically, or analyse a group of domestic homicides occurring in a selected time frame, searching for patterns and issues...

This paper considers the challenges Indigenous women face in Australian democracy.

Can Northern Territory fishers trawl coastal waters that lie within the boundaries of Aboriginal land, without the consent of traditional owners? That was the legal question tested in the High Court over two days in early December 2007. The answer, due later this year, will have economic significance for fishers, traditional owners and the NT...

Linda Popic writes in the Indigenous Law Bulletin on the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement and compensation in Canada in the context of Australia's Apology to the Stolen Generations.