LA4036 - Indigenous People and Law in Australia
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 3 |
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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.
Graduate Qualities
- The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments;
- The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
- The ability to speak and write logically, clearly and creatively;
- A coherent and disciplined body of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics in at least one discipline area;
- The ability to use a variety of media and methods to retrieve, analyse, evaluate, organise and present information;
- The ability to reflect on and evaluate learning processes and products;
- The ability to learn independently and in a self-directed manner;
- A commitment to lifelong learning and intellectual development.
| Prerequisites: | LA1007 or LA1101 or LA1102With Subject Coordinator's permission |
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| Census Date 31-Mar-2005 | |
| Coord/Lect: | Paul Havemann. |
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| Census Date 31-Mar-2005 | |
| Coord/Lect: | Paul Havemann. |
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| Assessment: | (40%); (10%); (40%); (10%). |
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.