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• Aboriginal Customary Laws - Law Reform Commission of Western Australia (2006)
  Final report of LRCWA's inquiry into the interaction of Western Australian law with Aboriginal law and culture (on Law Reform Commission of Western Australia)
• Aboriginal Law [Search]
  Transcript, 31st October 1995 (The Law Report, ABC Radio)
• Law and culture in the West Kimberley Ngarinyin tribal land [Search]
  Transcript, 10 September 1996 (The Law Report, ABC Radio)
• Motor Accidents (Compensation) Act (NT)
  Traditional Aboriginal marriages recognised for the purposes of the act (on AustLII)
• The Recognition of Aboriginal Customary Laws - ALRC 31 (1986)
  This Report by the Australian law reform Commission (ALRC) investigates issues related to a national legislative approach to recognition of aboriginal customary laws (Australian Law Reform Commission) (on AustLII)
• Recognition of Aboriginal Customary Laws - Summary of 1986 Report (1994)
  This is a short summary of the ALRC's report and the inquiry conducted into customary laws, which took ten years (on AustLII)
• Report of the Committee of Inquiry into Aboriginal Customary Law, Northern Territory Law Reform Committee (November 2003) [Search]
  This Committee inquired into issues of recognition and application of Aboriginal law in the NT, and made recommendations for law reform, pilot projects, further consultation, community sentencing and law and justice plans. Topics include payback and promised marriages (pdf on NT Government website)
• Sentencing and Indigenous Peoples [Search]
  Proceedings of Roundtable on Sentencing and Indigenous Peoples convened by the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) and the University of South Australia, on 31 October 1997 (on Australian Institute of Criminology)