Simon Rice (Professor of Law, The University of Sydney Law School, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia – Australian Discrimination Law Experts Group) has posted A Critical Account of the Aftermath of the Racial Vilification Case of Eatock V Bolt (Indigenous Legal Judgments: Bringing Indigenous Voices into Judicial Decision-making, Routledge, 2021, 169-178) on SSRN. Heres is the abstract:
Ms Eatock’s case could have been ‘just another Aboriginal vilification case’, except that it was successful, and successful against a high profile journalist and national publisher. What the perpetrator wrote was bad journalism; it caused harm and was unlawful. But in the years since, the counternarrative has deliberately and determinedly retold Ms Eatock’s case as a story where a high profile journalist perpetrator is the victim, and Aboriginal victims are effaced.