Cases concerning Aborigines

We have decided to add important Aboriginal cases as we come across them, whenever or wherever they were decided. For cases decided in N.S.W. between 1788 and 1841, see the Subject Index under Aborigines. For indigenous matters in Van Diemen's Land, see the Subject Index of that jurisdiction.

Aboriginal trials, 1848 (W.A.)

Aboriginal trials, 1849 (W.A.)

R. v. Boynjat, Wobut and others, 1849 (W.A.)

R. v. Cooke, 1753 (Massachusetts)

R. v. Guerrier, 1849 (W.A.)

R. v. Gurrier, 1847 (W.A.)

R. v. Lee and Wilkinson, 1863 (W.A.)

R. v. We-War, 1842 (W.A.)

See also Austlii's version of Tuckiar v. the King (1934) 52 CLR 335 (High Court decision of 1934)