Justice programs for Aboriginal and other Indigenous communities: Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Fiji and Papua New Guinea

Proceedings of a seminar held 29 April to 2 May 1985

Contents

• Preamble
• Opening address
  
  Professor Richard Harding
• Workshop introduction
  
  Kayleen M. Hazlehurst

I. The community

• Health and crime in black Australia
  
  Shane Houston
• Self determination: implications for criminal justice policy makers
  
  Roberta B. Sykes
• Aboriginal legal service: a problem of representation
  
  Craig Somerville
• The relevance of imprisonment
  
  Patricia Lowe

II. Policing

• Police/Aboriginal relations in South Australia
  
  Mark Pathe
• Bridging the gap: practical application and obstacles to change and co-operation, New South Wales
  
  Bill Galvin
• Current developments in Aboriginal/police relations in Western Australia
  
  Lynn Roberts

III. Community regulation in Fiji, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand and Canada

• Self-regulation in the Fijian village: its loss and proposals for reintroduction
  
  Ambika Prasad
• Village courts in Papua New Guinea
  
  Peter Bayne
• The Te Atatu Maori tribunal: participation and support of the formal court system, New Zealand
  
  Michael J.A. Brown
• Community care/community responsibility: community participation in criminal justice administration in New Zealand
  
  Kayleen M. Hazlehurst
• The over-involvement of Indigenous people with the criminal justice system: questions about problem 'solving'. A Canadian case study
  
  Paul Havermann

IV. Community regulation in Australia

• Community justice centres in New South Wales: an experimental model that works
  
  Wendy Faulkes
• Community service projects on Aboriginal communities in Queensland
  
  J.A. MacDonald
• Aboriginals and the courts I and II
  
  Terence Syddall
• Aboriginal justices of the peace and 'public law'
  
  Annie Hoddinott
• Aboriginal communities justice project: Northern Territory
  
  Stephen Davis
• The Yirrkala proposals for the control of law and order
  
  H.C. Coombs

V. Future directions

• Future planning needs
  
  Brian W. Easton
• A summary of issues: editor's notes on discussions and papers
  
  Kayleen M. Hazlehurst

Appendix I

• 'Youth Aid Section' New Zealand Police Department Police Act Regulations and General Instructions Vol. 2 (1980/82)
• Community Justice Centres Act, 1983, New South Wales
• Community Services (Aborigines) Act, 1984, Queensland
• Aboriginal Communities Act, 1979, Western Australia

Appendix II

• List of participants