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Uluru Statement from the Heart : Australian Public Law Pluralism
Larkin, Dani Galloway, Kathrine
Larkin, Dani
Galloway, Kathrine
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Abstract
It is now over a year since the declaration of the
Uluru Statement from the Heart (the ‘Uluru Statement’). Following an exhaustive series of dialogues with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community throughout Australia, the Uluru Statement offers an Indigenous-led legal, political, and cultural solution for bringing together Indigenous and non non-Indigenous Australians within our system of governance. Its three pillars are Voice, treaty, and truth truth-telling.
In this comment we provide an overview of the Uluru Statement and its importance in Australia’s legal landscape. We do so as a background to our key contention that the Uluru Statement is a central pillar in a truly pluralistic Australian public law. Regardless of its political reception — at the time of writing the Australian government has rejected it out of hand — the Uluru Statement represents a mile stone of Australian law offering a vital opportunity to integrate Indigenous law into an otherwise settler legal system.
Keywords
Australia, Uluru Statement from the Heart, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, treaty, Indigenous Law, Constitutional Law, Public Law, pluralism
Date
2018
Type
Journal article
Journal
Book
Volume
30
Issue
2
Page Range
335-345
Article Number
ACU Department
Thomas More Law School
Faculty of Law and Business
Faculty of Law and Business
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Open Access Status
Published as ‘gold’ (paid) open access
License
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
File Access
Open
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 Licence.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 Licence.