ABSTRACT Aboriginal sentencing courts are now a part of the legal landscape all over Australia. The Victorian Koori Court legislation provided for one respected elder to sit with the magistrate. The inaugural court at Shepparton provided for a senior woman and a senior man to sit with the magistrate. This template was followed in every subsequent Koori Court sitting across the state of Victoria and later in WA ensuring cultural respect for women as well as men, and embracing the role Aboriginal women have always assumed as keepers and cultivators of the community’s social depth and cultural storylines. Beyond that, it ensured women who came before the Koori Court could have their matters dealt with by women as well as men. This paper examines how these courts provided places of authoritative comfort for women who accepted the responsibility of becoming ‘women who judged’, and references to hearings where women changed the outcome because of their knowledge and the court’s preparedness to incorporate this in both closely occupied and remote settings and contexts.

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妇女和原住民量刑法庭：在时间之间喝杯茶

摘要 原住民量刑法庭现在是整个澳大利亚法律格局的一部分。维多利亚州古里法院的立法规定一名受人尊敬的长者与地方法官坐在一起。Shepparton 的就职法庭规定一名老年妇女和一名老年男子与地方法官坐在一起。此模板在随后的维多利亚州和西澳州的每个 Koori 法院都得到遵循，以确保对女性和男性的文化尊重，并接受原住民女性一直扮演的社区社会深度和文化故事情节的守护者和培育者的角色. 除此之外，它确保来到 Koori 法院的女性可以让女性和男性处理她们的问题。