Archive for the ‘Political developments’ Category
Maria Giannacopoulos, ‘The Nomos of Apologia’, Griffith Law Review, Vol. 18, No. 2, 2009. Abstract: On 13 February 2008, the newly elected Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd, offered an apology to the Stolen Generations of Indigenous peoples – an apology he said he offered ‘without qualification’. His ‘unqualified’ apology, however, was crafted for the […]
Filed under: Australia, law, Political developments, Scholarship and insights | Closed
The media frenzy over Eugene Terre’Blanche’s death has been a great source of interest over the past few weeks. It turned out to be remarkable for this blog, as I wrote a little piece on Mr. TB and the AWB over a month before his death. Sadly, no journalist (to my knowledge) thought it fit […]
Filed under: Africa, media, Political developments, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa | Closed
Tahlia Maslin, ‘Aboriginal Relations and Policy in Australia and Canada: From Handout to Hand-up’, Frontier Centre for Public Policy Backgrounder 85 (2010). via indigenouspeoplesissues Abstract: The Australian referendum of 1967 approved amendments to the Australian Constitution which allowed the Federal Government to make special laws that applied to Aboriginal Australians. As a result, since 1967, […]
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From maorinews: The Government is on the verge of offering the Tūhoe tribe a treaty settlement that could be as groundbreaking as it is controversial. Tūhoe is hoping it will mean total control of the Urewera National Park, and start the tribe on the way to self-rule and becoming a separate nation. But the Government […]
Filed under: law, New Zealand, Political developments, Sovereignty | Closed
Swedish Resistance Movement, Stockholm, this week: Excuse my ridiculous title for this post. I frame it partly to poke fun at academic jargon, but partly to highlight some uncertainty. What are the words for this European, and therefore extra-settler, rights discourse? Is it new? Is it likely to stick around? Can we compare it to, […]
Filed under: Political developments, Southern Africa | Closed
freshly ground black people
Rachel Olding, ‘Penguin reprints book, peppered with an error, wants it to be taken with grain of salt’, SMH: The publishing company was forced to pulp and reprint 7000 copies of Pasta Bible last week after a recipe called for “salt and freshly ground black people” – instead of pepper – to be added to […]
Filed under: Australia, Political developments, wacky | Closed
David Fautsch, ‘An Analysis of Article 28 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and Proposals for Reform’, Michigan Journal of International Law 31, 2 (2010). via TurtleTalk TOC: Introduction………………………………………………………………………….. 450 I. Article 28 in the Courts: A Theoretical Analysis ……. 454 A. Repeat Players and One-Shotters……………………………….. 454 B. Article 28 […]
Filed under: law, Political developments, Scholarship and insights | Closed
Desmond Manderson, ‘Not Yet: Aboriginal People and the Deferral of the Rule of Law’, Arena, October 2009. From the ‘War on Terror’ to Malaya and Pakistan the language of ‘emergency’ has been used to suspend legal principles. Closer to home, legislation enacted in August 2007 has profoundly changed the treatment of large numbers of Aboriginal […]
Filed under: Australia, law, Political developments, Scholarship and insights | Closed
The latest on the Israeli Pass System, from BBC News: Israel has imposed a military order which rights groups say could see tens of thousands of Palestinians deported from the occupied West Bank. […] It classifies people without the right Israeli paperwork as “infiltrators”. […] The wording of the order, known as the Order Regarding […]
Filed under: Israel/Palestine, law, Political developments | Closed
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