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Conference program

Pre Conference Workshops | Public Program Day 1 | Public Program Day 2 | The Mabo Lecture  

Public Program: Day 1

Please note that this Program is subject to change without notice

Wednesday 2 June 2010, 9:00am - 5:00pm

08:00-09:00

Registration

09:00-10:30

10:30-11:00

Morning tea

11:00 - 12:30

Community Development: Policy Planning Issues

Conservation Agreements

Representation and Traditional Ownership

The Lived Experience of Native Title

PBCs: Governing Relationships

Indigenous Talking Circle: Managing Payments and Distribution of Benefits

Venue

Bradman Theatrette

Menzies Theatrette

Nicholls Theatrette

Murray Room

Swan Room

Torrens Room

Chair 

Kirsty Magarey

Dave Johnston

Mick Dodson

Russell Taylor

Lisa Strelein

  
 

 

1. Patrick Sullivan:

'COAG, Normalisation, Land tenure and the NPA on Remote Indigenous Housing'

1.Feli McHughes, Jason Ford & Katherine Tibbitts:

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

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

 

Panel Discussion

1. Val Cooms & Tony McAvoy:

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

1.Joe Edgar & Jessica Weir:

'The social relations of a PBC in an Aboriginal community town'

Peter Jeffries

 
 

 

2. Mark Rumler & Sophie Marjanac:

'Normalisation, administrative practice and native title'

 2. Wally Stewart & Yvonne Stewart:

'Caring for Country in Partnership'

 

 

2. Ann Poelina:

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

2. Doug Passi, James Bon & Aven Noah:

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

 
 

 

3. Leon Terrill:

'Indigenous Land Reform: finding alternatives to the "Hobson's choice"'

 

 

 

3. Jodie Neale: (Commentator)

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12:30-1:30

Lunch

Video presentation: TBC

1:30-3:00

Housing and Community Development on the Ground

Caring for Country

Human Rights and Native Title

Mapping Relationships

PBC Regulatory Framework

Indigenous Talking Circle: International Repatriation

Venue

Bradman Theatrette

Menzies Theatrette

Nicholls Theatrette

Murray Room

Swan Room

Torrens Room
 

Chair

Russell Taylor

Ian Rawlings

Bradley Bell

 

Denise Lovett

Carly Jia
 

 

1. David Jagger:

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

1. Bruce Gorring:

‘Right people for right Country’ – Issues and directions in cultural and natural resource management in the Kimberley region of north Western Australia'

1. Mick Dodson:

'United Nations Permanent forum on Indigenous issues – recent developments'

1. Karen Williams:

'Reconceptualising Ngunawal territory as land, water, heritage and country'

1. Marcus Holmes & Georgina Riley:

'A PBC under siege: the post native title fight'

Kenny Saunders, Ned David, Gwen Hickling & Tom Trevorrow:

Panel Discussion
 

 

2. Murandoo Yanner:

‘Housing and community development in the Gulf’

2. Robbie Wongawol, Lindsey Langford, Rob Thomas:

‘From goannas to gizmos’: The Wiluna/Birriliburu land management and caring for country projects'

2. Bryn Davies:

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

2. James Rose:

'The problem with lineality in claim group descriptions: Why social networks are a better way of modelling traditional land tenure in South-Eastern Australia'

2. Libby Bunyan:

'Proposed PBC regulations'

 
 

 

3. Maluwap Nona:

Commentator

  

 

3. Jackie Hartley & Nick Burrage:

'Embracing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples'

3. Jimmy Weiner:

'The Murchison-Gascoyne Tribal Boundaries Project: Implications for the Evolution of Research Strategies in Native Title'

3. Anthony Beven:

'Strengthening governance in PBCs'

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3:00-3:30

Afternoon tea

3:30-5:00

Proposed Reforms to the Commonwealth Indigenous Heritage Laws

Joint Management of National Parks

Resolving Native Title Claims: Putting the 2009 Amendments to Work

Recent Cases and Developments

PBCs getting on with governance

Indigenous Talking Circle: Family History and Native Title

Venue

Bradman Theatrette

Menzies Theatrette

Nicholls Theatrette

Murray Room

Bradman Theatrette

Torrens Room

Chair 

 

Toni Bauman

Warwick Soden

Frank Davey

 

 
 

 

1.John Avery, Megan Brayne and Nolan Hunter

Panel Discussion

1. Chris Haynes:

'Towards a National Approach to Native Title and Joint Management'

1. John Mansfield, Graeme Neate, Warwick Soden and Ann Daniel

Panel Discussion

 

1. Robert Blowes:

'Some recent legal and practice developments in native title'

1. Francis Walker & Kate Sullivan:

'Jabalbina Yalanji; post determinati on experience'

PJ Williams & Rebecca Stubbs

Discussion Leaders

 

 

 

2. Greg Leaman:

'Innovative Arrangements for Co-management of Parks in South Australia'

 

2. Marcelle Burns:

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

2. Angus Frith:

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

 
 

 

 

3. Matt Patterson, Elizabeth Lakefield, Rob Laird:

'Joint Management of National Parks on Cape York Peninsula'