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  • The rights of Indigenous peoples to their intangible heritage must be recognised.

  • Rights in the traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions of Indigenous peoples must be respected, protected and maintained.

  • Indigenous knowledge, practices and innovations
    must be respected, protected and maintained.

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Mr Graeme Evans

Member - layman

portrait of Mr Graeme Evans

Graeme is one of the two representatives of laypersons on the committee, their roles being to ensure that technical issues do not impair the identification and communication of outcomes that reflect the overall roles of the committee and the overall values underpinning the research program.

Graeme has been a member of the REC for many years and is the only remaining foundation member still serving on the committee. In addition to scrutiny of particular proposed research projects he has participated in the progressive development and articulation of research standards, and the scrutiny procedures by which they are applied..

Graeme has had wide experience in a diverse range of policy and management roles but has placed much personal focus on his roles in the community and not-for-profit sector. This included a decade as an elected member of local government in Victoria (including a term as mayor of his municipality and as spokesperson for metropolitan local government in that State).

Since returning to Canberra in the early 1980s, Graeme has had a range of roles at territorial and national levels. He is a former president of ACTCoSS and was a member of the ACoSS national board for some years. For much of this time he took special responsibility for ACoSS involvement in the UN's Human Rights Program. He was recently elected an honorary Life Member of the ACT Council of P & C Associations in recognition of his work in relation to public schooling.

On a lighter note, Graeme was a member for some years of the YHA board of governors for ACT, NSW, NT and Queensland, a cause which has been close to his heart since his early days.

Graeme is a ANU graduate (BA). He has three children (one deceased) and nine grandchildren that he loves dearly.