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these wonder women. Wailwan and Wiradjuri lawyer Teela Reid is wrapping up #RebLawAu with a reminder to lawyers of our responsibilities to First Nations justice and rights. 
what stood out to delegates at the #RebLawAu conference?
I put storytelling!! #RebLawAu
Deb Kilroy appreciation tweet #RebLawAu
abolition is an everyday practice. It opens up so much possibility. Prisons are not sites of accountability. What about the murderers and rapists? Welp, the current system does not stop murder and rape. #RebLawAu
abolition stands counter to reformism, says Alison Whittaker. Reformist changes try to change conditions in prisons rather than challenging the legitimacy of prisons and carceral logics. Tinkering at the edges. #RebLawAu
Marrawah Johnson: we can not rely on litigation to save us but the significance of Mabo No 2 (1992) - the High Court rejected legal fiction of terra nullius and Wik Peoples bringing the principles of Mabo to the mainland and survival of native title on pastoral leases #RebLawAu
there has been a conscious and intentional uncoupling of Indigenous rights from human rights - Marrawah Johnson #RebLawAu
human rights are not new to Aboriginal law. It is colonial law that stripped First Nations people of their human rights. It has been convenient for settler colonial law to violate the rights that are enshrined in First Nations law - Marrawah Johnson, abridged #RebLawAu
“folks who are closest to the problem are also closest to the solution” 💥💥 - Marbre Stahly-Butts #RebLawAu
so much of how we exercise power goes unseen and that’s not an accident. Power is invisibilised because it is very violent - Stahly-Butts #RebLawAu
accountability is about who you go home to, who you explain your actions to, who you apologise to… Stahley-Butts is electrifying. On relationality and de-centering the law and lawyers as gatekeepers in movements for change #RebLawAu
we have a rights reluctant culture, says Prof Davis, and sometimes movement lawyers shrink themselves to fit the “miniscule and ungenerous nature of the political class” 💥💥 #RebLawAu
on strategic litigation, Prof Davis recalls the destructive impact of native title cases like Yorta Yorta #RebLawAu
drafting of the UNDRIP. Shout outs to Dr Sarah Pritchard SC and Dr Hannah McGlade, earlier to Amanda Porter and Alison Whittaker (me: all amazing and important scholars, look them up) #RebLawAu
RebLaw opens with Teela Reid introducing Riverbank Frank on Wiradjuri country, who Welcomes delegates and offers tribute to the late Hal Wooten #RebLawAus
Riverbank Frank tells the effect of “your law” on Aboriginal people and talks about [white] assumptions of inherent criminality.
the birds in the background sound so pretty😍
