Innovation and ancestral revelation: the case of dreams.(Autralian Aboriginal people, culture of tradition and innovations, law, history (dreams and gambling))

During the Yorta Yorta native title appeal in the High Court of Australia the Chief Justice asked the question: 'What makes a tradition really traditional?' (1) In line with the High Court's decision in this case 'traditional laws and customs' in the Australian native title connected thought [i]or[/i] thoughts now refers to those laws and customs exercised by means of Aboriginal people at the time of the acquisition of sovereignty by means of the British Crown. In public with 'conventional scholarly conceptions of culture and tradition', this use of 'tradition' embraces the 'proposition that a core or inmost nature [i]or[/i] substance of customs and values