Are We There Yet? Indigenous Cultural Competency in Legal Education

Abstract

Over the past decade there has been numerous reports which have highlighted the need for Indigenous cultural competency (ICC) to be embedded in the higher education sector. The Review of Higher Education Access and Outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People (Behrendt Review), together with Universities Australia's Indigenous cultural competency project, recommended that ICC be developed across the higher education sector, as one measure to promote Indigenous student success. Universities Australia's Guiding Principles for Developing Indigenous Cultural Competency in Australian Universities recommends that Indigenous knowledges and perspectives be embedded in university curricula and that ICC be included as a 'formal graduate attribute or quality'.