SOCIAL JUSTICE IN AUSTRALIA AND OCEANIA

Abstract

Social justice in Australia and Oceania have evolved through complex historical processes. It is shaped by Indigenous governance practices, European colonisation and struggles for equality, recognition and self-determination, the latter continue to contribute to today's disputes of Indigenous rights, welfare policy, environmental justice and regional development. Australia’s and Oceania’s Indigenous societies were diverse and maintained a range of systems of governance, law and social organisation prior to European colonisation in Australia.