Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. MARK COLVIN: Despite the horrific acts of abuse that Central Australia's Crown Prosecutor outlined last ...

Maria Tickle: On the program today, customary law and Anglo-Australian law; can they mix? Next week the Northern Territory Law Reform Committee is presenting recommendations to the N.T. government on ...

Harry Blagg does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

It’s important to understand that a First Nations consultative body such as the Customary Senate doesn’t pose a ‘threat’ to democracy or the rule of law. Although South Africa has taken steps to rid ...

South Australia's Mullighan inquiry - set up to investigate the abuse of state wards, but widened this month to cover sex attacks on children in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara desert ...

Chief Justice Michael Grant made the comments when discussing customary law and intimate partner violence in a speech at a Piddington Society event in Darwin on August 8. The Piddington Society ...

From time to time, Jane Lester finds the peace, quiet and stability of her home life a little “odd”. Lester, 35, has been happily married for some time, but sees the first 27 years of her life as “a ...

A LANDMARK event will take place this month as indigenous lawyers and law students get together in an effort to better understand and analyse the use of customary law in modern day Australia. This ...

The legal profession has slammed the Government’s plan to prevent cultural background evidence from being used in sentencing, labelling it poorly conceived and ‘pure politics’. Kate Gibbs reports This ...

The case of a 50-year-old man who had sex with his 15-year-old promised wife has prompted a Northern Territory MP to call for Aboriginal customary law to be ignored by the courts. Jackie Pascoe, of ...