原住民治理的宪政构架

在如何理解澳大利亚政府的宪政构架上,需要一个观念转变。这个转变的基础,是理解原住民治理的存在及其在澳大利亚政治组织各个层面的实践,以及澳大利亚州的正式制度已暗中接纳各种形式的原住民治理。澳大利亚的联邦主义经验意味着理解这种转变很容易做到。当联邦和州的原住民政策最终和支持它们的治理构架一样强大时,这一转变必定出现。

A Constitutional Framework for Indigenous Governance

This article argues that there needs to be a conceptual shift in how we understand the constitutional framework of government in Australia.Fundamental to this shift is an understanding that indigenous governance exists and is practiced at various levels in the Australian polity,and that the formal institutions of the Australian state already accommodate indigenous governance in various forms,albeit implicitly.Australia's experience of federalism means that it is well placed to make this shift in understanding.The shift must occur as Commonwealth and state Indigenous policies are,ultimately,only as strong as the framework of governance that supports them.