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)
Cubillo and Gunner Cases (NT)
The Cubillo and Gunner cases were chosen as "lead cases" by the Northern Australian Legal Aid Service Stolen Generation Litigation Unit, in an attempt to establish legal precedent for Stolen Generations cases. They argued that there had been a breach of duty of care by the Commonwealth through inadequate supervision and monitoring of the Retta Dixon Home in Darwin and the St Mary’s Hostel in Alice Springs, where the litigants Lorna Cubillo and Peter Gunner had spent part of their respective childhoods.