{"title":"The Challenges of Indigenous Women in Liberal Democracies","authors":"Megan Davis","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2298528","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2298528","url":null,"abstract":"This paper provides some brief observations of two specific challenges that face Indigenous women in Australian democracy: the limitations of the ballot box and Aboriginal women's political participation and; the marginalisation of women in the legal system.","PeriodicalId":269515,"journal":{"name":"Indigenous law bulletin","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131509084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cuts both ways: tenants’ rights and the double-sided consequences of ‘secure tenure’ in remote Aboriginal communities","authors":"Elly Patira","doi":"10.1163/2210-7975_hrd-1758-2015001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/2210-7975_hrd-1758-2015001","url":null,"abstract":"On 7 February 2016, public housing tenants from the remote Aboriginal community of Santa Teresa in the Northern Territory commenced unprecedented legal action against the CEO of the Northern Territory Department of Housing (‘the Department’) in an attempt to address the poor state of housing in their community. In total, 70 individual tenants filed applications in the Northern Territory Civil and Administrative Tribunal (NTCAT), seeking orders under s 63 of the Residential Tenancies Act 1999 (NT) (‘the RTA’) requiring the Department, as landlord, to attend to over 600 housing repairs.1","PeriodicalId":269515,"journal":{"name":"Indigenous law bulletin","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114473429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}