Justice
A history of the Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia
- Paperback
460 pages
- Release Date
1 November 2011
Summary
Some of Australia’s major social, political and legal reforms of the past four decades have been influenced by the Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia’s campaigns for Aboriginal people’s human rights, and in particular equality before the law. A lively and multi-dimensional insight into Australian history, Justice reveals the human face of these reforms and takes this story beyond the criminal justice system. From its beginnings in the early 1970s, the Aboriginal Legal Service of We…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781921401633 |
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| ISBN-10: | 192140163X |
| Author: | Fiona Skyring |
| Publisher: | UWA Publishing |
| Imprint: | UWAP |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 460 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2011 |
| Weight: | 522g |
| Dimensions: | 231mm x 152mm x 33mm |
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About The Author
Fiona Skyring
Fiona Skyring is a Sydney-based historian who works for native title organisations, and contributes to a range of community history projects and academic publications. She has worked as an expert witness historian for the Kimberley Land Council in Western Australia, and gave evidence on behalf of native title applicants in five trials in the Federal Court of Australia. In 2006 Fiona prepared several submissions on behalf of the Aboriginal Legal Service of WA (Inc.) for the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee Inquiry into Indigenous Stolen Wages, and gave evidence at the Inquiry hearings in Perth.
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