PUBLIC LECTURE: A Different Kind of "Subject": Colonial Law in Aboriginal European Relations in Early 19th Century Western Australia

A public lecture by Ann Hunter, Lecturer/Law Coordinator, School of Indigenous Studies, UWA.

The lecture will examine the approach taken by British and colonial governments towards Aboriginal people in the formative years of the Swan River Colony. The colonial and British government pronounced that Aboriginal people were to be regarded as British subjects with similar rights to those of the colonists under British law. Dr Hunter’s lecture will demonstrate that this was not the case. She will examine how legalistic style devices, policies and actions such as outlawry were employed to deny Aboriginal people their rights, particularly Noongar people on whose land the colonial invasion first occurred.

Cost: Free, no RSVP required.