Indigenous Justice Issues
UndergraduateTAS-HAB3082025
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 16 Feb 2025
- Entry requirements
- Prior study needed
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Price from
- $2,142
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Indigenous Justice Issues
About this subject
Upon successful completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Analyse and compare Indigenous experience of Australian legal and justice systems through critical review.
- Evaluate historical interaction between Indigenous and Australian law through case studies and examples.
- Discuss and appraise contexts in which these themes are explored within Indigenous Justice Issues.
- European Empire and the Indigenous 'other'
- Settler Colonialism: War and Genocide
- Treaty in history: Comparative cases
- Land rights and water ways
- Native Title
- Constitutional Law: A Voice to Parliament
- Constitutional and Property Law: Statehood, treaty, and sovereignty
- Constitutional, Property and Case Law: Citizenship, status, identity
- Civil Law: Repatriation
- Intellectual Property Law
- International Law
- Indigenous transnationalism and racial justice
This interdisciplinary subject engages students in a detailed study of Indigenous experience of social and legal systems from invasion/colonisation to the present day. Beginning with the global historical context, the subject traces the ongoing struggle for Indigenous justice from the violent colonial frontier to the era of social media. The subject explores issues including Land Rights and Native Title, criminal justice, Indigenous ownership of intellectual and cultural property, and treaty negotiations at the local and national levels. Where appropriate, comparisons are drawn from the experience of Indigenous people in other places.
- Take-Home Exam (30%)
- Essay (40%)
- Review Essay (20%)
- Participation (10%)
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Conditional requisite: 25 credit points at Introductory level or higher
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