Aboriginal human rights and the criminal justice system : is self-determination the only solution?

McNamara, Luke

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Aboriginal human rights and the criminal justice system : is self-determination the only solution?

Date

1991-06-05

Authors

McNamara, Luke

Publisher

University of New South Wales

Abstract

The Australian Prime Minister's announcement in August 1987 of the establishment of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody can be seen as the culmination of a growing recognition in this country that the gross overrepresentation of Australian Aborigines ^ at all stages of the criminal justice system was an intolerable situation which required a major judicial investigation