Law and justice outside the CBD

Abstract

Rural and regional Australia frames much of our national history and cultural heritage and therefore of our identity as a people. The oldest and most pervasive part of that history and heritage is found in the intricate and beautiful legends of the Dreamtime which have mapped and named Australian landscapes for tens of thousands of years. Those legends find visual, aural and kinetic expression in the art, songs and dances of Aboriginal people living and dead, which we and the world have only really begun to appreciate in the last half century. The rise of that appreciation and the affirmation by Aboriginal people of their cultural heritage perhaps mitigates the darker aspect of the consequences .