LA4036 - Indigenous People and Law in Australia
Credit points: |
3 |
Year: |
2014 |
Student Contribution Band: |
Band
3
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Administered by: |
School of Law Office (pre 2015) |
The subject examines the impact of Australian law on Indigenous peoples. Policies
and practices for building cross-cultural awareness, doing ethical research, professional
best practice and promoting reconciliation are outlined. Major topics addressed by
the subject include: Terra Nullius and dispossession; the Constitution and the race
power; sovereignty and citizenship rights; a Treaty and international human rights
law; governance and self determination; criminal law and over-representation; child
welfare law, assimilation and genocide; native title and property rights; intellectual
property law and traditional knowledge; heritage law and sacred sites; social, economic,
cultural rights and social exclusion; biodiversity conservation law and caring for
country; rights and/or mediation; social justice and reconciliation.
Learning Outcomes
- to develop a cross-cultural awareness for practice and co-existence as citizens;
- to enable students to contrast competing systems of governance, norms, values and
beliefs operating in the contemporary Australian context;
- to enable students to critique the appropriateness of state law and legal institutions
and processes for Indigenous people;
- to enable students to understand the historical development of the law relating to
the Indigenous peoples of Australia in a local and international context;
- to enable students to understand the key areas of Australian law that impact on Indigenous
people.
Prerequisites: |
(LA1101 and LA1102 and LA1103 and LA1104) 0 (LA1007 and LA1006) |
Availabilities
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Townsville,
Internal,
Study Period 1
|
Census Date 27-Mar-2014 |
Coord/Lect: |
Ms Heron Loban. |
Workload expectations: |
- 26 hours lectures
- 12 hours tutorials
|
Assessment: |
end of semester exam (40%); presentations (10%); essays (40%); essay proposal (10%). |
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Cairns,
Internal,
Study Period 1
|
Census Date 27-Mar-2014 |
Coord/Lect: |
Ms Heron Loban. |
Workload expectations: |
- 26 hours lectures
- 12 hours tutorials
|
Assessment: |
end of semester exam (40%); presentations (10%); essays (40%); essay proposal (10%). |
|
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Note:
Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process,
and in case
of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest
official information.