Kruger Case (NT)

Kruger and Bray v Commonwealth was a court case challenging the constitutionality of Northern Territory legislation from 1918 that had authorised the separation of Aboriginal families. The case was brought by a number of Aboriginal plaintiffs who had themselves been removed from their families, and a mother whose child had been removed from her. The case was unsuccessful. (See Sarah Joseph, 1998, “Kruger v Commonwealth: Constitutional Rights and the Stolen Generations,” Monash University Law Review, 24, 2: 486-98)