Mr Roger Dive, Magistrate, Local Court, Parramatta, 19 July 1995

Mr Neil Lofgren, Head, Centre for Indigenous Rights and Critical Legal Inquiry Ltd, Bond University, 21 June 1996

Jim Coombs, Barrister, 25 June 1996

Mr Michael Dodson, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, 26 June 1996

Submissions received 1997

Martin L Sides QC, Senior Public Defender, 4 February 1997

John Nicholson SC, Deputy Senior Public Defender, 10 February 1997

N R Cowdery QC, Director of Public Prosecutions (endorsing views of members of the Office of Director of Public Prosecutions), 20 February 1997

Mr Bernard Carlon, Acting Director Community Safety Development Branch, NSW Police Service (on behalf of the Police Commissioner, Mr Peter Ryan), 7 March 1997

Mr Terry Murphy, General Manager, Legal Service, Legal Aid New South Wales, 7 March 1997

Mr M I MacPherson, Magistrate, Magistrate’s Chambers, Gunnedah Court House, 13 March 1997

Mr R A Brown, Magistrate, Magistrate’s Chambers, Moree Local Court, 18 February 1997

Mr M Dowd, Magistrate, Magistrate’s Chambers Griffith Local Court, 20 February 1997

Mr B A Lulham SM, Magistrate, Broken Hill Local Court, February 1997

Mr Neil Lofgren, Head, Centre for Indigenous Rights and Critical Legal Inquiry Ltd, Bond University, 21 April 1997

Mr K B Walker, 12 May 1997

J M A Cramond, Chief Magistrate, Magistrate’s Court, Adelaide, 30 June 1997

Ms Roseanne McInnes, Magistrate, Magistrate’s Court, Port Adelaide, 4 July 1997

Mr H Hunt JP, 14 July 1997

Law Society of New South Wales, 15 July 1997

Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement Inc, South Australia, 21 July 1997

His Honour, Judge G S Forno QC DCJ, District Court, Queensland, 21 July 1997

Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service Co-operative Ltd, 23 July 1997

Mr G F Hiskey SM, Magistrate’s Chambers, Adelaide Magistrate’s Court, 16 August 1997

Mr Neville T Bonner AO, Chairman, Indigenous Advisory Council (Queensland), 9 September 1997

Associate Professor Diana Eades, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 3 October 1997