Critical Judgments in Hostile Times: A Roundtable on Indigenous, Feminist, Queer Perspectives

Nicole I’m a Munanjali and Birri Gubba woman, from Queensland, but I’ve been in Sydney for a long time. I had the great privilege of editing the Indigenous Legal Judgments book (Watson and Douglas 2021 ), a collection of sixteen judgments that have been reimagined from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives. One of the goals of the project was to bring together a community of scholars who are interested in Indigenous legal issues. We’re very lucky in Australia to have this group of emerging young Indigenous legal scholars, and it was such a privilege to work with them. Indigenous people have been in the legal academy for a relatively short period of time in Australia, our first generation of Indigenous legal scholars only emerged in the late 90s. It has been a real struggle for us to keep a foothold. But we also feel a great responsibility to constantly push back against the erasure of our voices. So, it is a very strong political imperative for us to write differently.