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Aboriginal Law Bulletin --- "Update: The Mabo Case; Te Whakamarama - The Maori Law Bulletin; Phillip Baxter College Symposium" [1990] AboriginalLawB 47; (1990) 1(47) Aboriginal Law Bulletin 2


Update

Mabo Case

On 16 November 1990, justice Moynihan of the Supreme Court of Queensland handed down his determination of facts in the case Mabo v Queensland and Commonwealth. The determination is in three volumes. An account of his Honour's findings will be included in the next issue of the AboriginalLB. Initial impressions suggest that the findings in the case for at least one of the three plaintiffs will be sufficient to allow the High Court to rule on the important legal questions at issue.

Te Whakamarama - The Maori Law Bulletin

Issue No. 4 of this bimonthly publication, published by the Wellington Maori Legal Service Inc, has just arrived. Its major theme is the familiar one - Maori deaths in custody. Indeed, it makes a number of references to the Australian experience and Helen Corbett contributes an article giving the Committee to Defend Black Rights (CDBR) perspective of the workings of the Royal Commission Into Aboriginal Deaths In Custody, Issue No.4 reports that between 1980-1988 there were 36 Maori deaths in prisons and 14 in police cells, compared to 33 Pakeha (non-Maori) deaths in prison and 12 in police cells. Maori's make up 12.5% of the population of Aotearoa (New Zealand). The Maori Legal Service is proceeding to a fuller study of the problem.

Issue No.4 also contains the Wellington Maori legal Services Annual Report.

Phillip Baxter College Symposium

The Phillip Baxter College 4th annual symposium took place on the 20th of October 1990 at the University of New South Wales. Robert Tickner the Federal Minister for Aboriginal Affairs addressed the symposium on `Reconciliation Between Aboriginal and non Aboriginal Australians'. The Minister utilised the forum to highlight the Government's change of emphasis from a `treaty' to a `process' of reconciliation. He argued that without such change any document would not be successful. He also stated that a document may or may not result from this process which could take up to ten years. Members of the audience questioned the Minister's agenda. Issues such as how the Minister's proposal would impact on the question of sovereignty were raised. The Minister was unable to address these questions as his proposal had not yet been put to Parliament.


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