• Recognition of the diversity and uniqueness of peoples, as well as of individuals, is essential.

  • The rights of Indigenous peoples to self-determination must be recognised.

  • 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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Dr Sarah Holcombe

Member – expert researcher

portrait of Dr Sarah Holcombe

Sarah as a committee member has ‘knowledge of, and current experience in, the areas of research that are regularly considered by the Committee’.

She has a disciplinary background in social anthropology, undertaking her PhD research in remote central Australia. Half of her 20 year’s experience working with Indigenous Australians has been as an applied anthropologist in the Northern Territory. More recently this work has involved developing resources, such as protocols and guidelines, for government agencies and research bodies to systematize an ethical and collaborative approach to working with Indigenous knowledge holders in research.

She has for the last nine years been involved in a diverse range of projects at the ANU, principally through the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR), including as Social Science Coordinator for the Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre. This cross-disciplinary and collaborative research has ranged from working in the Pilbara region of WA on the socio-economic sustainability of mining for Indigenous communities and native title holders,to research in central Australiain relation to Indigenous community governance and 'development'. Sarah was also fortunate to spend 8 months as a researcher for the newly established Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Healing Foundation, only leaving when she was awarded an ARC Future Fellowship in 2011. This 4 year research project was taken up in early 2012. The research topic is "Global Indigenous Rights and Local Effect in central Australia: tracing relations of power and locating Potentialities".

Sarah is also a Director on the Executive of the Australian Anthropological Society (AAS);2010-2013.