The chronology finishes in 1996 with the release of the Matthews report. Following that (roughly, and without specific dates as I haven't the time right now):
* Change of Federal Government in Australia * Federal Government passes the Hindmarsh Island Bridge Act, overriding any legal impediments or objections to the building of the bridge. * Dorreen Kartinyeri and others go to the High Court of Australia arguing that the Hindmarsh Island Bridge Act is an illegitimate use of Commonwealth powers under the Constitution * High Court decides in the Commonwealth Government's favour. (Pennie and I are appalled by the judgment, amongst many others - Kartinyeri v Commonwealth becomes a key case in Australian constitutional law that I certainly studied and as far as I know is still studied and cited, mostly out of context (~sigh~ but that's law for you)) * Bridge is built * The Bridge developers sue a number of whitefellas (who were involved in Robert Tickner's original 25 year ban on the bridge) for compensation in the Federal Court. As part of that, Judge von Doussa realises that he has to weigh evidence as to whether or not the Women's Business was fabricated - as was charged by the Developers. Von Doussa finds, among other things, that there is not compelling evidence that the Women's Business was fabricated, and further ('cause I've just looked up his judgment) that just because whitefellas find something hard to understand doesn't mean it's not true. (Fabulous line). * In 2001 around the same time as the von Doussa judgment, the bones of two females, probably a mother and daughter, more than 200 years old and thus definitely indigenous people and probably Ngarrindjeri, are found while work is being done on the Goolwa wharf. The remains are returned to the Ngarrindjeri people for proper burial, and the discovery of the remains prompts a formal apology to the Ngarrindjeri people, particularly the women, for the way the Goolwa area council behaved towards them in relation to the bridge affair.
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* Change of Federal Government in Australia
* Federal Government passes the Hindmarsh Island Bridge Act, overriding any legal impediments or objections to the building of the bridge.
* Dorreen Kartinyeri and others go to the High Court of Australia arguing that the Hindmarsh Island Bridge Act is an illegitimate use of Commonwealth powers under the Constitution
* High Court decides in the Commonwealth Government's favour. (Pennie and I are appalled by the judgment, amongst many others - Kartinyeri v Commonwealth becomes a key case in Australian constitutional law that I certainly studied and as far as I know is still studied and cited, mostly out of context (~sigh~ but that's law for you))
* Bridge is built
* The Bridge developers sue a number of whitefellas (who were involved in Robert Tickner's original 25 year ban on the bridge) for compensation in the Federal Court. As part of that, Judge von Doussa realises that he has to weigh evidence as to whether or not the Women's Business was fabricated - as was charged by the Developers. Von Doussa finds, among other things, that there is not compelling evidence that the Women's Business was fabricated, and further ('cause I've just looked up his judgment) that just because whitefellas find something hard to understand doesn't mean it's not true. (Fabulous line).
* In 2001 around the same time as the von Doussa judgment, the bones of two females, probably a mother and daughter, more than 200 years old and thus definitely indigenous people and probably Ngarrindjeri, are found while work is being done on the Goolwa wharf. The remains are returned to the Ngarrindjeri people for proper burial, and the discovery of the remains prompts a formal apology to the Ngarrindjeri people, particularly the women, for the way the Goolwa area council behaved towards them in relation to the bridge affair.