Hindmarsh Island Royal Commission

A former South Australian District Court judge, Mrs Iris Stevens, was appointed as Royal Commissioner.

Cultural geographer Dr Jane Jacobs argued that these publications needed to be seen as a product of their times.

In the case of Berndt, we are assuming a male anthropologist walking into an Aboriginal community in the 1940s got the truth.

Connie Roberts, who was born in 1919 and was one of the elders who had allegedly passed the "women’s business" on to Doreen Kartinyeri, was asked about talking about such things with an anthropologist: You can't.

Its major findings were: The Howard Government passed the Hindmarsh Island Bridge Act (1997),[4] which allowed construction to go ahead; and in August 2001, in a civil case in the Federal Court of Australia, Justice John von Doussa rejected claims for damages by the developers, stating that he was not satisfied that the claims of "secret women's business" had been fabricated.