Author: Michael Murphy

01 Oct Wild Rivers: environmental colonization (ABC)

Posted at 15:04h in News, Posts

In all of the current debate on the Queensland Government's Wild Rivers laws, one major matter is being completely missed. That matter is the process of contemporary environmental colonisation of Cape York. Where once Indigenous rights in land were taken by colonialists for economic gain,...

30 Sep Circle sentencing expanded in NSW (Sydney Morning Herald)

Posted at 15:07h in News, Posts

A radical justice scheme that brings indigenous offenders face to face with their victims and allows Aboriginal elders to help decide sentences is being expanded across NSW. The state government will on Thursday announce the rollout of Circle Sentencing to regional centres Moree, Ulladulla, Wellington and...

24 Sep Why privatization of reserve lands risks aboriginal ruin (The Lawyers Weekly)

Posted at 06:46h in News, Posts

The federal government is exploring a voluntary regime of private ownership of reserve lands in Canada. This is an idea that is premature and short-sighted. Advocates of this proposal say that the current communal stewardship of traditional lands by First Nations stifles development and stunts financial...