CONFERENCE: 7th National Indigenous Legal Conference

For the first time, the National Indigenous Legal Conference will be held in Western Australia. The conference is being run jointly by the WA Law Society, Notre Dame University and the University of Western Australia and will be held on Friday 5th October and Saturday 6 October.

The conference addresses two key themes, New Approaches to Justice, and Cultural and Natural Resources Management.

Within these two main themes, sessions include discussions on the Noongar Claim, Stolen Wages, Indigenous Ecological Knowledge, and Youth Diversionary Programs in criminal justice. The conference also examines the current and highly significant issues of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and the Constitutional Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.