Indigenous Justice Clearinghouse Research Brief 18 considers how policy makers develop, implement and evaluate Indigenous justice programs and services. It scopes the growing body of evidence about implementation in Australia. Examples of key polices and strategies are considered, including: policing measures introduced under the Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER); night or community patrols; Aboriginal sentencing...

While gender and age are often noted as being important dimensions of Indigenous leadership and governance, they have rarely been examined in detail. This paper focuses specifically on the gender and age of directors on the boards of prescribed bodies corporate (PBCs), the corporations established to hold and/or manage native title rights and interests.

In the native title 'hot tub' outlines the history and development of expert conferencing and expert concurrent evidence in Australia, including in the Federal Court. These approaches to expert evidence are a major development of the last decade, greatly reducing the hearing time of native title proceedings and the costs to the parties involved. The...

Throughout Australia the native title claims of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are resolved primarily through negotiated consent determinations, whereby the court recognises native title following the agreement of the parties, rather than through contested litigation. Negotiations leading up to a consent determination often raise two separate legal questions: firstly, is the claimants’ case...

Executive summary Koori women make up the fastest growing segment of the Victorian prison population. They are currently being incarcerated at a much higher rate than both non-Koori women and Koori men.