David Ritter
Biographic Data
| ID | 457175 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Ritter |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Ritter |
| SIGNATURE | RITTER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Western Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0293-7687 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Contesting Native Title
'This book debunks in spectacular fashion some of the most treasured, over-inflated claims of the benefits of native title.'Professor Mick Dodson, ANU Centre for Indigenous Studies'David Ritter's fascinating account of the evolution of the native title system is elegant and incisive, scholarly and sceptical; above all, unfailingly intelligent.'Professor Robert Manne, La Trobe University'An unsentimental, richly informed account of a fascinating p…
Shrinking Democracy with Law
The Australian federal government - and several state governments - are currently seeking to use law to reduce the democratic space available to Australian citizens and even future governments. Legal realist theory tells us that law follows power, in contrast to the legal positivist view that law's development follows its own internal rules of logic. In Australia today, the realist thesis is evidenced by several laws currently being pursued or co…
Best of Times, Worst of Times and End Times
The Ideological Foundations of Arguments About Native Title
The political disputes over native title in Australia have generally been interpreted without recourse to ordinary ideological categories. The general failure to engage with ideology has hampered scholarly analysis, stunting the vocabulary and content of debate, as well as giving the content of public deliberation on the issue a curiously free-floating quality. In this article it is contended that arguments about native title are amenable to bein…
Antipodean Settler Societies and their Complexities
This article considers the process of determining native title claims and responding to the revelation of forced Indigenous child removal in Australia, together with the Treaty of Waitangi claims process in New Zealand; each of which can be understood more broadly as a response to the aftermath and ongoing consequences of colonisation. We undertake this analysis comparatively, through an examination of the broad sweep of colonial history in both …
Tilting at doctrine in a changing world
Henry Reynolds’ The Law of the Land was first published in 1987 and advanced a radical reassessment of the history of property ownership in Australia. Reynolds’ work challenged the prevailing legal and historical orthodoxy under which it was assumed that as a consequence of colonisation, the Indigenous peoples of Australia no longer enjoyed any enforceable rights to land arising from their traditional use and occupation. Since its initial publica…
Myths, Truths and Arguments
Distant Reverberations
The trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem in 1961 is widely regarded as one of the principal events in the rise to prominence of a distinct event known as 'the Holocaust' in Western European and American cultural consciousness. This article considers the impact of the Eichmann trial in Australia
JAS review of books
David Carter ed, The Ideas Market, Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 2004, pp 298 pages, pb $32.95, ISBN 0522851126. Joan Eveline, Ivory Basement Leadership: Power and Invisibility in the Changing University, Nedlands, UWA Press, 2004, pp 260, pb $39.95, ISBN 1920694218. Graham Seal, Inventing Anzac: The Digger and National Mythology, St Lucia, API Network and UQP, 2004, pp 232, ISBN 0702234478. Anna Shnukal Guy Ramsay and Yuriko Nagata eds, N…
Books
Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth Century Australia. By Pat Jalland. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2006. Pp. 409. $39.95 paper. A Different Sort of War: Australians in Korea, 1950–53. By Richard Trembath. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2005. Pp. 266. $34.95 paper. New Zealand and the Vietnam War: Politics and Diplomacy. By Roberto Rabel. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2005. Pp. xi + 443. NZ$49.99 paper. The Encyclopedia of Melbourne. E…
Many Bottles for Many Flies
This article critically considers the legal regulation of Indigenous people's cultural heritage in Western Australia and its operation within the framework of Australia's federal system of government. The article also sets out the different ways in which Indigenous cultural heritage is conceptualised, including as a public good analogous to property of the crown, an incidental right arising from group native title and as the subject of private co…
Greatness as Measure? Recent Writings on the High Court of Australia
Owen Dixon. By P. Ayres Oxford Companion to the High Court of Australia. Edited by T. Blackshield, M. Coper and G. Williams The Brennan Legacy: Blowing the Winds of Legal Orthodoxy. By R. Creyke and P. Keyzer
JAS review of books
Don Watson, Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language, Knopf, 2003, hb $29.95, ISBN 1740512065. Spencer Zifcak, Mr Ruddock Goes to Geneva, UNSW Press, 2003, pp 92, pb $16.95, ISBN 0868404551. Frank Brennan, Tampering with Asylum: A Universal Humanitarian Problem, University of Queensland Press, 2003, pp 234, pb $30.00, ISBN 0702234168. Geoffrey Barker, Sexing it Up: Iraq, Intelligence and Australia, UNSW Press, 2003, pp 112, pb $16.95, ISBN 08…
The Judgement of the World
In the landmark Yorta Yorta native title case, the trial judge held that the Aboriginal group's native title had been ‘washed away by the tide of history'—a finding that has not been displaced by the Courts on appeal This article sets out the jurisprudential origins of the metaphor ‘tide of history’, as well as looking at its broader intellectual roots and does so in the context of broader debates about the law and history of native title. Decons…
The fulcrum of Noonkanbah
(2002). The fulcrum of Noonkanbah. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 26, Country, pp. 51-58
Comparability of Columbia Mental Maturity Scale and Stanford-Binet, Form L-M, Estimates of Intelligence
The Columbia Mental Maturity Scale is an individually administered intelligence test designed for use with children ages 3Y2 to 9 yr. (Burgemeister & Blum, 1972). It correlates moderately (.40 to .50) with picture vocabulary tests such as the Peabody, Ammons, and Van Alstyne (Dunn & Harley, 1959) and with the Wide Range Achievement Test (Smith, 1961). Correlation coefficients with non-verbal measures of intelligence, such as the Pictorial Test of…
The Judgement of the World
In the landmark Yorta Yorta native title case, the trial judge held that the Aboriginal group's native title had been ‘washed away by the tide of history'—a finding that has not been displaced by the Courts on appeal This article sets out the jurisprudential origins of the metaphor ‘tide of history’, as well as looking at its broader intellectual roots and does so in the context of broader debates about the law and history of native title. Decons…
The Ideological Foundations of Arguments About Native Title
The political disputes over native title in Australia have generally been interpreted without recourse to ordinary ideological categories. The general failure to engage with ideology has hampered scholarly analysis, stunting the vocabulary and content of debate, as well as giving the content of public deliberation on the issue a curiously free-floating quality. In this article it is contended that arguments about native title are amenable to bein…
Many Bottles for Many Flies
This article critically considers the legal regulation of Indigenous people's cultural heritage in Western Australia and its operation within the framework of Australia's federal system of government. The article also sets out the different ways in which Indigenous cultural heritage is conceptualised, including as a public good analogous to property of the crown, an incidental right arising from group native title and as the subject of private co…
Comparability of Columbia Mental Maturity Scale and Stanford-Binet, Form L-M, Estimates of Intelligence
The Columbia Mental Maturity Scale is an individually administered intelligence test designed for use with children ages 3Y2 to 9 yr. (Burgemeister & Blum, 1972). It correlates moderately (.40 to .50) with picture vocabulary tests such as the Peabody, Ammons, and Van Alstyne (Dunn & Harley, 1959) and with the Wide Range Achievement Test (Smith, 1961). Correlation coefficients with non-verbal measures of intelligence, such as the Pictorial Test of…
The fulcrum of Noonkanbah
(2002). The fulcrum of Noonkanbah. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 26, Country, pp. 51-58
Greatness as Measure? Recent Writings on the High Court of Australia
Owen Dixon. By P. Ayres Oxford Companion to the High Court of Australia. Edited by T. Blackshield, M. Coper and G. Williams The Brennan Legacy: Blowing the Winds of Legal Orthodoxy. By R. Creyke and P. Keyzer
JAS review of books
Don Watson, Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language, Knopf, 2003, hb $29.95, ISBN 1740512065. Spencer Zifcak, Mr Ruddock Goes to Geneva, UNSW Press, 2003, pp 92, pb $16.95, ISBN 0868404551. Frank Brennan, Tampering with Asylum: A Universal Humanitarian Problem, University of Queensland Press, 2003, pp 234, pb $30.00, ISBN 0702234168. Geoffrey Barker, Sexing it Up: Iraq, Intelligence and Australia, UNSW Press, 2003, pp 112, pb $16.95, ISBN 08…
The Judgement of the World
In the landmark Yorta Yorta native title case, the trial judge held that the Aboriginal group's native title had been ‘washed away by the tide of history'—a finding that has not been displaced by the Courts on appeal This article sets out the jurisprudential origins of the metaphor ‘tide of history’, as well as looking at its broader intellectual roots and does so in the context of broader debates about the law and history of native title. Decons…
JAS review of books
David Carter ed, The Ideas Market, Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 2004, pp 298 pages, pb $32.95, ISBN 0522851126. Joan Eveline, Ivory Basement Leadership: Power and Invisibility in the Changing University, Nedlands, UWA Press, 2004, pp 260, pb $39.95, ISBN 1920694218. Graham Seal, Inventing Anzac: The Digger and National Mythology, St Lucia, API Network and UQP, 2004, pp 232, ISBN 0702234478. Anna Shnukal Guy Ramsay and Yuriko Nagata eds, N…
Books
Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth Century Australia. By Pat Jalland. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2006. Pp. 409. $39.95 paper. A Different Sort of War: Australians in Korea, 1950–53. By Richard Trembath. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2005. Pp. 266. $34.95 paper. New Zealand and the Vietnam War: Politics and Diplomacy. By Roberto Rabel. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2005. Pp. xi + 443. NZ$49.99 paper. The Encyclopedia of Melbourne. E…
Many Bottles for Many Flies
This article critically considers the legal regulation of Indigenous people's cultural heritage in Western Australia and its operation within the framework of Australia's federal system of government. The article also sets out the different ways in which Indigenous cultural heritage is conceptualised, including as a public good analogous to property of the crown, an incidental right arising from group native title and as the subject of private co…
Myths, Truths and Arguments
Distant Reverberations
The trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem in 1961 is widely regarded as one of the principal events in the rise to prominence of a distinct event known as 'the Holocaust' in Western European and American cultural consciousness. This article considers the impact of the Eichmann trial in Australia
Antipodean Settler Societies and their Complexities
This article considers the process of determining native title claims and responding to the revelation of forced Indigenous child removal in Australia, together with the Treaty of Waitangi claims process in New Zealand; each of which can be understood more broadly as a response to the aftermath and ongoing consequences of colonisation. We undertake this analysis comparatively, through an examination of the broad sweep of colonial history in both …
Tilting at doctrine in a changing world
Henry Reynolds’ The Law of the Land was first published in 1987 and advanced a radical reassessment of the history of property ownership in Australia. Reynolds’ work challenged the prevailing legal and historical orthodoxy under which it was assumed that as a consequence of colonisation, the Indigenous peoples of Australia no longer enjoyed any enforceable rights to land arising from their traditional use and occupation. Since its initial publica…
The Ideological Foundations of Arguments About Native Title
The political disputes over native title in Australia have generally been interpreted without recourse to ordinary ideological categories. The general failure to engage with ideology has hampered scholarly analysis, stunting the vocabulary and content of debate, as well as giving the content of public deliberation on the issue a curiously free-floating quality. In this article it is contended that arguments about native title are amenable to bein…
Best of Times, Worst of Times and End Times
Shrinking Democracy with Law
The Australian federal government - and several state governments - are currently seeking to use law to reduce the democratic space available to Australian citizens and even future governments. Legal realist theory tells us that law follows power, in contrast to the legal positivist view that law's development follows its own internal rules of logic. In Australia today, the realist thesis is evidenced by several laws currently being pursued or co…
Contesting Native Title
'This book debunks in spectacular fashion some of the most treasured, over-inflated claims of the benefits of native title.'Professor Mick Dodson, ANU Centre for Indigenous Studies'David Ritter's fascinating account of the evolution of the native title system is elegant and incisive, scholarly and sceptical; above all, unfailingly intelligent.'Professor Robert Manne, La Trobe University'An unsentimental, richly informed account of a fascinating p…
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