The community visits program, run continuously since 1992, involves a series of visits by judicial officers to Aboriginal communities within New South Wales. These visits give judicial officers who attend the opportunity to enhance their understanding and appreciation of the history and culture of Aboriginal people, and provide a useful forum for members of the court and the Aboriginal community to exchange information and ideas on issues of mutual concern, including cultural and language differences. Visits have been made to Balund-a, Dubbo, Gosford, Hunter Valley, Katoomba, Kempsey, La Perouse, Lismore, Nowra, Picton, Redfern, Taree and Forster, Walgett, Wallaga Lake, and Yamba.
Reports on community visits published in the Judicial Officers’ Bulletin
- La Perouse, 2022 (PDF 1.4 MB)
- Learning about Aboriginal astronomy, 2018 (PDF 1.4 MB)
- Central Coast, NSW, 2017 (PDF 1.32 MB)
- Muru Mittigar Aboriginal Cultural and Education Centre, 2016 (PDF 1.98 MB)
- Walgett, 2014 (PDF 2MB)
- Redfern, 2012 (PDF 702KB)
- Balund-a and Lismore, 2011 (PDF 3MB)
- Taree and Forster, 2010 (PDF 6MB)
- Wallaga Lake and Narooma, 2009 (PDF 3MB)
- Dubbo, 2009 (PDF 166KB)
- Hunter Valley, 2008 (PDF 2MB)
- Kempsey, 2007 (PDF 739KB)
- Expansion of the NSW Koori Court (PDF 380 KB)
- Listening, Learning and Leading: The Work of the Ngara Yura Committee (PDF 297 KB)
- Mentoring Indigenous young people: the Tribal Warrior program (PDF 199 KB)
- Defining intergenerational/transgenerational trauma (PDF)
- Understanding intergenerational trauma (PDF 548 KB)
- Decolonising the mind: working with transgenerational trauma and First Nations People (PDF 354 KB)
- First Nations consensus in constitutional reform, nation building and treaty making processes (PDF 767)
- Colonial frontier massacre map project (PDF)
Other resources
- The Bar Book project (launched November 2019)