Knowing Your Rights: Implications of the Critical Legal Studies Critique of Rights for Indigenous Australians

Human rights are the foundation on which social justice rests, encompassing virtually every sphere of life - social, cultural, economic, political and civil. Name any issue of concern to Aboriginal people and it relates to human rights, because at the heart of social justice issues are the experiences and suffering of Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islanders ... Everybody has a fair idea of what human rights means. Human rights are about having the opportunity to live as we would choose to live, without gross interference or violation, and having reasonable means to do so.1