Native Title Conference 2010: People, Place Power

Author

Keynote Address

Chair: Mick Dodson

The Sami people in the outmost North - the people in the twilight zone

Lars-Anders Baer

Reconciling Aboriginal Title and rights with Asserted Sovereignty: The Modern day DC Treaty Process

Shana Manson

Mabo Lecture (Chair: Kevin Smith)

Introductory Remarks

Bonita Mabo, Jessie Mabo

Keynote Address

Minister Jenny Macklin

Mabo Lecture

Marcia Langton

1. a) Community Development: Policy Planning Issues (Chair: Kirsty Magarey)

COAG, Normailisatoin, Land Tenure and the NPA on Remote Indigenous Housing

Patrick Sullivan

Normalisation, administrative practice and native title

Mark Rumbler & Sophie Marjanac

Indigenous land reform: what is the real aim of reforms?

Leon Terrill

1. b) Housing and Community Development on the Ground (Chair: Russell Taylor)

Community Development from land use agreements: what engagement takes in today's legal and operational landscape

David Jagger

1. c) Proposed refors to the Commonwealth Indigenous Heritage Laws (Chair: Janet Osborne)

Panel Discussion

John Avery, Megan Brayne, Nolan Hunter

2. a) Conservation Agreements (Chair: Dave Johnston)

Ngemba Old Mission Billabong Program-Building and Demonstrating Harmonious Environmental and Community Wellbeing

Feli McHughes, Jason Ford, Katherine Tibbits

Caring for Country in Partnership

Wally Stewart, Yvonne Stewart

2. b) Caring for Country (Chair: Denise Williams)

Right people for right country - Issues and directions in cultural and natural resource management in the Kimberley region of north Western Australia

Bruce Goring

From goannas to gizmos: the Wiluna/Birriliburu land management and caring for country projects

Robbie Wongawol, Lindsey Langford, Rob thomas

2. c) Joint Management of National Parks (Chair: Toni Bauman)

Towards a National Approach to Native Title and Joint Management

Chris Haynes

Innovative arrangements for co-management of parks in South Australia

Greg Leaman

Joint Management of National Parks on Cape York Peninsula

Matt Patterson, Elizabeth Lakefield, Rob Laird

3. a) Representation and Traditional Ownership (Chair: Mick Dodson)

Panel Discussion

Terry Williams, Brian Wyatt, Darryl Pearce, Kerry Arabena, Sam Jeffries

3. b) Human Rights and Native Title (Chair: Bradley Bell)

United Nations Permanent forum on Indigenous issues - Recent Developments

Mick Dodson

Can native title (still) offer a platform for self-determination and human rights?

Bryn Davies

Embracing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Jackie Hartley, Nick Burrage

3. c) Resolving native title claims: Putting the 2009 amendments to work (Chair: Warwick Soden)

Panel Discussion

John Mansfield, Graeme Neate, Warwick Soden, Anne Daniel, John Dorsett

4. a) The Lived Experience of Native Title (Chair: Russell Taylor)

Are we there yet? A glimpse of Quandamooka peoples' journey through the Native Title process

Val Cooms, Tony McAvoy

Yimardoowarra Marnin (Women from the Lower Fitzroy River) lived experience and world view of being a 'native' woman championing title

Anne Poelina

Commentory

Jodie Neale

4. b) Mapping Relationships

Reconceptualising Ngunawal territory as land, water, heritage and country

PowerPoint Presentation

Karen Williams

The problem with lineality in claim group descriptions why social networds are a better way of modelling traditional land tenure in South-Eastern Australia

James Rose

The Muchison-Gascoyne Tribal Boundaries Project: Implications for the Evolution of Indigenous Collectiviety in Native Title

Jimmy Weiner

4. c) Recent Cases and Developments (Chair: Frank Davey)

Some recent legal and practice developments in native title

Robert Blowes

Power to the People: A new view of society in native title

Marcelle Burns

5. a) PBCs: Governing Relationships (Chair: Lisa Strelein)

The social relations of a PBC in an Aboriginal community town

Joe Edgar, Jess Weir

From Freezer to Freedom-A short history of infrastructure on Murray Island post Mabo

Doug Passi, James Bon, Aven Noah

5. b) PBC Regulatory Framework (Chair: Denise Lovett)

A PBC under siege: the post native title fight

Marcus Holmes

Proposed PBC regulations

Libby Bunyan

Strengthening governance in PBCs

Anthony Bevan

5. c) PBCs getting on with governance (Chair: Jason Elias)

Jabalbina Yalanji: post determination experience

Francis Walker, Kate Sullivan

The mob getting it right for the future: structures and processes of PBCs

Angus Frith

6. a) Settlement on a large scale (Chair: Chris Marshall)

From the Margins to the engine Room-Broader Land Settlements and the role of Native title Structures in Shaping their Future

Bill Lawrie, Glen Kelly

The Foreshore and Seabed Act 2009 - Where to now?

Craig Coxhead, Layne Harvey

6. b) Implementing the Victorian Native Title Settlement Framework - 12 months on... (Chair: Chris Marshall)

Panel Discussion

Karyn Negri, Chris Marshall, Graham Atkinson, Gary Howell

6. c) Changing Unhelpful Mindsets: Towards Beneficial Approaches (Chair: Chris Marshall)

Tamsyn Harvey, John Mansfield

Serendipity is not Enough!!! State and Territory Native Title Connection Processes and the presumption of transformation

Toni Bauman

Framing change in native title and overview of the Government's vision of native title and approach

Katherine Jones

7. a) Negotiating outcomes from Large Scale Development (Chair: Andrew Strelein)

Regional Benefits Sharing - Nation Building through Native Title negotiations to ensure legacies for future generations

Cameron Syme

Land Rights and Uranium in Northern Territory

Ron Levy

Native Title Act and Indigenous Entrepreneurship

Leonie Kelleher

7. b) Native Title Holders as Property Developers (Chair: Lisa Strelein)

The Mt John Valley Indigenous Land Use Agreement - Selling or Buying our Future?

Darryl Pearce

Native title-post-settlement: what we do wit hall of these rights now we've got them?

Manuhuia Barcham

Truth or Dare: Honesty and pragmatism in negotiating a comprehensive native title agreement in Broome

Pat Dodson, David Lanagan, Jo Franz

7. c) Effecitve Catalysists for Economic Development (Chair: Sally McMartin)

Panel Discussion

Mitch Hooke, Daniel Archer, Leanne Caton, Bryan Palmer, Brian Wyatt

8. a) Tax Reform for Native Title (Chair: Lisa Strelein)

Native Title, Indigenous Economic Development and Tax

Rachel Thompson

Native Title Payments and their Tax Consequences: Is the Federal Government's Recommendations of witholding tax the best approach

Fiona Martin

Whose money is it anyway

Simon Nish

8. b) Native Title Joint Working Group

Governance in the Native Title Context: current work of the Joing Working Group in Indigenous Land Settlements

Tamsyn Harvey, Greg Roach

Commentators

Damien Bidjara-Barnes

9. a) Reading Early Ethnographies and Histories(Chair: Ros Brown)

God's truth and anthropology: early texts and contested rights

Kingsley Palmer

Cherbourg 1934: Reading Caroline Tennant-Kelly's fieldwork

Kim De Rijke, Tony Jefferies

Embracing our Hallmark Latencies: On Centring Anthropological Practice

Tim Pilbrow

9. b) Getting Connection Processes Right (Chair: Melissa Moore)

Wiluna Claim Direct Connection Evidence-The Claimants own voice in native title connection evidence and assessment

Sarah Bell, Lee Sackett, Darren Farmer, Robert Wongawol

Mediation and case management post-2009

Dan O'Dea, Tom Weaver

9. c) The future of native title in Australia (Chair Mick Gooda)

Panel Discussion

Mick Dodson, Marcia Langton, Lars-Anders Bear, Craig Coxhead, Chana Manson

10. a) Heritage and natural resource management (Chair: Joann Schmidor)

After native title? An integrated approach to management of cultural and natural heritage values on determined land

Peter Veth

Jo Donovan, Maureen Bartle

10. b) Wild Rivers (Chair: Glenda Hyde)

The conflict between Wild Rivers and Native Title

Greg McIntyre

Beyond Native title: The 'rights' response to social justice and the concpetual problems of resource development

Summary

Virginia Falk

10. c) Workshop: Indigenous communities and carbon market opportunities (Chair: Tas Sakellaris)

Blair Comley, Sue Salvin