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FLASH IN THE PAN Cover des ign by Siobh an jackson 44 Reviews of the films Beneath Clouds; Cover photograph of Lorcl Acton from 32 Looking after Letters of l.ord Acton to Mary Gladstone, Juliette Hughes on one way to handle Storytelling; No Man's Land; eel. Herbert Pau l (George Allen, London, Baise-moi and The Ma;estic. 1904) sexual abuse. Ph otogra ph p5 by Q . Saka mak i/Agence 34 Th e question of terror Fri ends SPECIF IC LEVITY Graphics pp8, 1 D. 12, 16--18, 1 1 by Ian Bucl<ley argues that the war on Siobhan Jackson terrorism is not the answer. 47 Joan Nowotny Cryptic crossword COMMENT: 1 FRANK BRENNAN The Mabo decade L Y>A'S ACO, on 3 june, the High Coun handed parliam ent passed the Racial Discrimination Act, down its decision in the Mabo case. Don Watson in state parliam ents and state governmen ts could extin­ his recent book, Recollection s of a Bleeding Heart: guish native title at their whim without payment of A Portrait of Paul Kea ting PM, recalls: 'The historic compensation simply by granting the land to some significance of the decision was obvious to everyon e, other person . In Mabo, due process and compensa­ except all those who either had no history or som e­ tion for native-title holders would be available only thing else on at the time. As this m eant about 80 per to those fo rtunate enough to have retained their lands cent of the population and up to 90 per cent of the during two centuries of colonial dispossession prem­ [press] gallery, panic and excitem ent took som e time ised on the terra nullius mindset. That is why Noel to set in.' Indeed. Pearson describes Mabo as the High Court peace plan Mabo was the first case where the full bench of with a three-part comprom ise: 'Wh itefellas keep the High Court was asked to consider the common­ what's theirs, blackfellas get what's left over, and law recognition of land rights. Justice Brennan, who there's an area of land in the middle, in relation to wrote the lead judgm ent, off ered this general com- w hich th e cou rt has prescribed co-existence. ment on the occasion of his retirem ent from Moreover, in relation to the co-existence, the court's Eddie Mabo and his the bench six years later: formula is very simple. That is, that the crown title will prevail over the native title if there is any incon­ The agenda of the courts are defined by QC, Ron Castan/ sistency.' As N oel says, 'There could be no more the litigants. T he courts decide the con­ peaceful a proposition for peace than the one pu t troversies that the people bring to the have died.