Toni Bauman

Research Fellow, Native Title

Contact: toni.bauman@aiatsis.gov.au

Toni Bauman is a Research Fellow in the Native Title Research Unit at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. She is an anthropologist, mediator, facilitator and trainer who has published widely and made presentations to national and international audiences. She has over thirty years experience in Indigenous matters including land and native title claims, agreement-making, decision-making and dispute management processes, joint management of national parks and Indigenous Protected Areas, government policy, art and craft, program evaluation, feasibility studies, tourism and training.

She has worked as a staff member and consultant for government departments, statutory authorities and organisations including Land Councils, Native Title Representative Bodies, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, and the Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority in Darwin. She was also a member of the Community Living Areas Tribunal in the Northern Territory.

Toni facilitates numerous workshops relating to good governance including the management of disputes and decision-making processes with Indigenous mediators, governments, and Boards of corporations. These workshops are often directed at building relationships and better communication among Indigenous people or between governments and Indigenous people.

Between 2003 and 2006, Toni was the chief investigator and manager of the Indigenous Facilitation and Mediation Project. In 2008, she acted as adviser to the Federal Court ‘s National Alternative Dispute Resolution Advisory Council, co-editing the final report in 2009, Solid work you mob are doing: Case Studies in Indigenous Dispute Resolution & Conflict Management in Australia. In 2011, she was appointed as a Research Affiliate at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government in the Malcolm Weiner Center for Social Policy and as a visiting scholar at the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy at the University of Arizona. Toni is a Director of Dodson, Bauman & Associates Pty Ltd, Legal and Anthropological Consultants.

Current research focus

• Indigenous decision-making and dispute management processes
• The management of connection material by the States and the role of the Commonwealth
• Joint management of conservation areas including Indigenous Protected Areas and Australian National Parks
• Comprehensive agreements and prescribed bodies corporate.

Selected Publications

• Bauman, T. and G. Macdonald, Eds. 2011 Unsettling anthropology. The demands of native title on worn concepts and changing lives. AIATSIS, Canberra
• Martin, D., T. Bauman and J. Neale, 2011 Challenges for Australian native title anthropology: practice beyond the proof of connection. Discussion Paper No 29, AIATSIS, Canberra, May 2011.
• Bauman, T. (2010). 'A Historic Moment: Jutpurra (Gregory) National Park handback and joint management', Native Title Newsletter May/June 03/2010, NTRU, AIATSIS, Canberra.
• Bauman, T. (2010) In press. "Consensus and Contestation in Native Title in Australia: Review of David Ritter (2009) 'The Native Title Market and Constesting Native Title. From Controversy to Consensus in the Struggle over Indigenous Land Rights'" Australian Aboriginal Studies 2010/1.
• Bauman, T. (2010) Ed. Dilemmas in applied Native Title anthropology ( 2,308 Kb). Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Studies, Canberra.
• Bauman, T. (2010) Ed. 'Dilemmas in applied Native title Anthropology: An Introduction' in Bauman, T. Ed.Dilemmas in applied Native Title anthropology ( 2,308 Kb). Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Studies, Canberra.
• Bauman, T. (2010) Ed. 'Serendipity is not enough! State and Territory connection processes' in Bauman, T. Ed.Dilemmas in applied Native Title anthropology ( 2,308 Kb). Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Studies, Canberra.
• Bauman, T. (2009). ‘Speaking across difference: towards an ‘intercultural’ mediation and peace building native title praxis in Australia’ in Bagshaw, Dale & Porter Elisabeth (eds). Mediation in the Asia Pacific, Transforming Conflict and Building Peace. Routledge: London and New York.
• Bauman, T. ‘Getting the Djabugay back in town’: Djabugay Native Title Corporation Planning Workshop, ( 780 Kb) Native Title Newsletter September/October No. 5/2008:3.
• Bauman, T. ‘Honouring Nations Indigenous Governance Tour Arizona and New Mexico October 2008’, ( 780 Kb) Native Title Newsletter September/October No. 5/2008:6.
• Bauman, T and Pope, J. (2008) Solid work you mob are doing: Case Studies in Indigenous Dispute Resolution & Conflict Management in Australia ( 2.1 Mb). Federal Court of Australia, Melbourne.
• Farrell, R., Catlin, J. and Bauman, T,. 2007. Getting Outcomes Sooner: report on a native title connection workshop Barossa Valley July 2007 ( 490 Kb). National Native Title Tribunal and Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
• Bauman, T & Tran, T. 2007. First National Prescribed Bodies Corporate Meeting: Issues and Outcomes Canberra 11-13 April 2007 ( 1.43 Mb), Native Title Research Report 3/2007 National Meeting of Prescribed Bodies Corporate, Native Title Research Unit, AIATSIS, Canberra.
• Bauman, T. (2007). Nitmiluk is not an island: Balancing interests in managing Nitmiluk National Park: A Case Study. Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies in association with the Australian Collaboration and the Poola Foundation (Tom Kantor fund).
• Bauman, T. and D Smyth. (2007). Indigenous Partnerships in Protected Area Management in Australia: Three case studies. Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies in association with the Australian Collaboration and the Poola Foundation (Tom Kantor fund).
• Bauman, T. (2006). Final Report of the Indigenous Facilitation & Mediation Project July 2003/04 – June 2006: research findings, recommendations and implementation ( 403 Kb) Indigenous Facilitation and Mediation Project. Report No. 6. Native Title Research Unit, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
• Bauman, T. (2006) Aboriginal Darwin. A guide to important places in the past and in the present. Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra.
• Bauman, T. (2006).  'Nations and tribes ‘Within’: Emerging Aboriginal ‘Nationalisms’ in Katherine'. The Australian Journal of Anthropology 17(3):322-336.
• Sullivan, P. and T. Bauman. Eds. (2006). 'Delimiting Indigenous Cultures: Conceptual and Spatial Boundaries'. The Australian Journal of Anthropology. Special Issue 18.
• Bauman, T. (2006). 'Waiting for Mary: Process and Practice Issues in Negotiating Native Title Indigenous Decision-making and Dispute Management Frameworks' ( 149 Kb), Land, Rights, Laws: Issues of Native Title 3(6): 1-13. Native Title Research Unit, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
• Bauman, T. and F. Kingham. (2006). Native title mediation: issues identified, lessons learnt: proceedings and findings of IFaMP workshops with native title mediators February and March 2005 ( 196 Kb), Report No. 5. Native Title Research Unit, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
• Bauman, T. (2005) Whose Benefits? Whose Rights? Negotiating rights and interests amongst native title parties ( 168 Kb). Land, Rights, Laws: Issues of Native Title. Native Title Research Unit Issues Paper. Vol. 3 No. 2.
• Bauman, T. and R. Williams (2005) The Business of Process: Research Issues in Managing Indigenous Decision-Making and Disputes in Land ( 196 Kb). Report No. 1. Indigenous Facilitation and Mediation Project, Native Title Research Unit, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra. (Formerly published as AIATSIS Research Discussion Paper No. 13).
• Indigenous Facilitation and Mediation Project and Capital Careers Pty Ltd. (2006)  Finding Training Solutions in Indigenous Decision-Making and Dispute Management: A resource for Native Title Representative Bodies. Native Title Research Unit, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra.
  • Part 1: Finding Training Solutions - a resource for native title representative bodies ( 664 Kb)
  • Part 2 :Finding Training Solutions - finding training providers ( 903 Kb)
• Indigenous Facilitation and Mediation Project and Social Compass. (2006) Evaluation Toolkit: Training and Service Delivery in Decision-Making and Dispute Management Processes in Native Title ( 553 Kb). Native Title Research Unit, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra
• Kingham, F. Bauman, T and M. Black. (2005) Report on Proceedings of Workshop of Native Title Mediators 15 and 16 March 2005 ( 192 Kb). Indigenous Facilitation and Mediation Project, Native Title Research Unit, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra.
• Bauman, T. and R. Williams. (2004) Report on Native Title Representative Body Workshops: Directions, Priorities and Challenges ( 409 Kb). Indigenous Facilitation and Mediation Project.  Report No. 2.  Native Title Research Unit, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra.
• Bauman, T. (2002) 'Test 'im blood': Subsections and shame in Katherine’. Anthropological Forum 12(2): 205-20.
• Bauman, T. (2001) Shifting Sands. Towards an Anthropological Praxis. Oceania 71(3): 202-25.