This article is the result of an interdisciplinary collaboration between legal scholars and a journalist with prolific expertise and experience in media. The aim is to explain and clarify several pieces of Australian legislation and regulation and the free speech burdens it potentially imposes, to determine whether the laws are suitably targeted at preventing and...

This paper seeks to reanalyse the Mabo case from the point of view of non-discrimination. It argues that the Mabo judgment may have been discriminatory in finding that pre-existing entitlements in surviving native title are restricted to the limited range of activities that can be proven by reference to traditional law and custom and that...