Bendigo Writers Festival: Black Lives White Law with Kate Auty and Russell Marks

Is the Australian justice system sound? How has it managed the discipline and punishment of First Nations people? What can history and lived experience tell us about the relationship between law, politics, colonialism and social control? And can legislation itself be the instrument of reconciliation? An historian, a criminal defence lawyer, a First Nations elder and a legal scholar discuss the institutions and applications of ‘justice’.