High Court rules Indigenous people cannot be deported as aliens, but the fight for legal recognition remains
- Written by Kate Galloway, Associate Professor of Law, Griffith University

The High Court made an important decision today about whether it is possible for Aboriginal Australians to be deported from the country if they are not citizens.
By a majority of 4:3, the court decided that
Aboriginal Australians … are not within the reach of the ‘aliens’ power conferred by s 51(xix) of the...