{"id":10102,"date":"2017-06-26T20:10:41","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T10:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/?p=10102"},"modified":"2024-07-10T07:02:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:02:56","slug":"the-alj-marks-a-historic-90th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/2017\/06\/26\/the-alj-marks-a-historic-90th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"The Australian Law Journal celebrates historic 90th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thomson Reuters has been the proud publisher of The Australian Law Journal<\/em> <\/strong>(ALJ) for 90 years. The first issue rolled off the presses in May 1927.<\/p>\n

To mark this milestone, Thomson Reuters Legal ANZ hosted a special 90th<\/sup> Anniversary celebration on 8 June 2017 in the Banco Court, at the Supreme Court of NSW, Sydney.<\/p>\n

The Australian Commonwealth Attorney-General, Senator the Hon George Brandis QC<\/strong>, was a Guest Speaker at the event.\u00c2\u00a0Commenting on the parallel development of the ALJ and the legal profession in this country, the Attorney-General said:<\/p>\n

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The Australian legal profession is privileged to have been able, for these 90 years, to rely upon the ALJ as both a source of legal news and information, as well as a source of well-reasoned argument and comment in an age where such qualities are increasingly difficult to find.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In his Introductory speech, the journal\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s current General Editor, the Hon Justice Fran\u00c3\u00a7ois Kunc<\/strong>, commented on the ALJ\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s milestone and its standing in the legal community:<\/p>\n

Justice Kunc said the journal has four guiding principles<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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  1. An appreciation of legal history, how we got to where we are today;<\/li>\n
  2. A commitment to both the clear exposition of the law as it is today and to its principled development for the future;<\/li>\n
  3. A firm sense of moral purpose, including to maintain a civil society which enables all its people to flourish; and<\/li>\n
  4. An openness to the application of human imagination and creativity.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    These principles led to Justice Kunc and the ALJ Editorial Board commissioning a special 90th<\/sup> anniversary issue<\/a> on Indigenous Australians and the Law, curated by Guest Editor\u00c2\u00a0Professor Megan Davis<\/a><\/strong>, UNSW\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first Pro Vice-Chancellor Indigenous<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a0Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law<\/a>, and a pivotal member of the Referendum Council.<\/p>\n

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    Professor Megan Davis, Guest Editor, ALJ Indigenous Special Issue<\/p><\/div>\n

    It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a timely edition.<\/p>\n

    2017 marks\u00c2\u00a0the 50th<\/sup> anniversary of the landmark 1967 constitutional referendum. This led to Australia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Indigenous peoples being included in the census and enabled the Commonwealth to make laws for them. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also 25 years since the Mabo<\/em> High Court decision that established native title land rights in Australia.<\/p>\n

    The Referendum Council, appointed by the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition, has been holding dialogues around the country on steps towards recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the Australian Constitution, and is due to deliver its report to the Government at the end of the month.<\/p>\n

    Professor Megan\u00c2\u00a0Davis in her Keynote Speech described the many months of unprecedented consultation and dialogue which brought together the voices of Indigenous communities across the country, leading up to the First Nations National Constitutional Convention and the Uluru Statement from the Heart<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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    When Fran\u00c3\u00a7ois asked me to be the Guest Editor we spoke about the significance of the 90th anniversary and how appropriate it would be for it to be a thematic edition on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the Australian legal system. Each of the articles was intended to represent the complex ways that Indigenous law traverses the Australian legal system: constitutional law, succession law, heritage protection law, property law, equality before the law and intellectual property.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    Professor Davis emphasised that the core message of\u00c2\u00a0the Uluru Statement from the Heart is\u00c2\u00a0“a\u00c2\u00a0roadmap\u00c2\u00a0for peace”, based on\u00c2\u00a0the consensus of\u00c2\u00a0“meaningful recognition”, which includes three key reforms:\u00c2\u00a0a voice to the Parliament, a\u00c2\u00a0Makarrata Commission – an\u00c2\u00a0agreement-making commission\u00c2\u00a0-\u00c2\u00a0and truth telling.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0At this historic turning point, the Uluru Statement is an\u00c2\u00a0invitation to all Australians to walk forward together in building our nation’s future.<\/p>\n

    Among other special guests at the ALJ 90th<\/sup> event were distinguished members of the judiciary, including the former Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, the Hon Sir Gerard Brennan AC KBE GBS, former High Court Justice the Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG, former ALJ General Editor the Hon Peter Young AO, past and present journal section editors and contributors, as well as representatives from the legal profession, academy and students.<\/p>\n

    Congratulations to the ALJ and its editorial and production team, as it celebrates 90 years and looks toward the centenary and beyond.<\/p>\n

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    Current ALJ Board L to R: Nuncio D\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Angelo, Angelina Gomez, Clare Langford, the Hon Justice Fran\u00c3\u00a7ois Kunc, Ruth Higgins<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The Australian Law Journal (ALJ) first rolled off the presses 90 years ago in May 1927. To mark this milestone, Thomson Reuters hosted a special 90th Anniversary celebration in the Banco Court of NSW, joined by luminaries such as Hon Sir Gerard Brennan AC KBE GBS, the Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG and former ALJ General Editor the Hon Peter Young AO, with a timely ALJ 90th special edition focusing on the theme of Indigenous Australians and the Law, curated by Guest Editor Professor Megan Davis, UNSW\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first Pro Vice-Chancellor Indigenous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,38],"tags":[10152,178,10365,9128,10366,8595,10367,1286,10368,9030,10369,3298,10370,10371,10372,10280],"class_list":["post-10102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-australian-law-journal","category-journals","tag-90th-anniversary","tag-alj","tag-alj-general-editor","tag-australian-academy-of-law-aal","tag-australian-commonwealth-attorney-general","tag-australian-law-journal","tag-banco-court","tag-high-court-of-australia","tag-referendum-council","tag-senator-the-hon-george-brandis-qc","tag-the-hon-justice-francois-kunc","tag-the-hon-michael-kirby-ac-cmg","tag-the-hon-peter-young-ao","tag-the-hon-sir-gerard-brennan-ac-kbe-gbs","tag-uluru-first-nations-national-constitutional-convention","tag-uluru-statement-from-the-heart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}