Sentences with phrase «indigenous traditional owners»

Last year I conducted a national survey of Indigenous traditional owners and their representative bodies to record their views and experiences regarding economic development on their land.

But where it does apply it has led to some large areas of land being returned to the ownership of some Indigenous traditional owners and communities.6

The Commission notes that the joint management of national parks and other conservation reserves (including Indigenous Protected Areas) with Indigenous traditional owners is increasingly being accepted as an appropriate option for the management and protection of these areas.

The Murray - Darling River Basin is home to a number of Indigenous Traditional Owner groups across the five states and territory.

The Archer, Lockhart and Stewart River Basins are home to a number of Indigenous Traditional Owner groups including Northern and Southern Kannju, Wik Mungkan, Apalach, Wintchnum, Olkola, Kuuku - Y» au, Umpila, Kuntanumpu, Ultahganu, Lama Lama, Kuuku - Yani, Ayapathu and Umbindamu.

Not exact matches

The Uluru Statement from the Heart proposed the inclusion of Australia's Traditional Owners» voices via an Indigenous advisory body in parliament.

In his capacity as a social sciences teacher, David found the opportunities to learn more about Indigenous culture and the traditional owners of the region a core aspect to the trip, providing him with the ideas and inspiration required to help him begin planning potential learning experiences for his students.

Deficit and race - based assumptions in Indigenous education: At Thornbury Primary School in Victoria, all students (Indigenous and non-Indigenous) are taught the Woiwurrung language of the Wurundjeri people — the traditional owners of the land the school is on.

The Kuku Yalanji are the traditional owners of the land and you can learn more about Kuku Yalanji culture on a 90 minute Ngadiku Dreamtime Walk, which departs from Mossman Gorge with a local indigenous person as your guide.

The view over the school's grounds summons other layers of meaning over time, as this ridge - top site would have provided the Cadigal people, the traditional owners, a place to survey the harbour and the wetlands and witness «a world changing around them» to quote Wesley Enoch who spoke at the launch as the first indigenous director of the Sydney Festival.

A few statutes provide for compensation to be paid in recognition of the disturbance to traditional land from mining.77 A number of regimes provide for royalties, or an amount equivalent to the royalties received by the state or federal government, to be paid to the Indigenous owners.

In the following section I want to take this process further and consider how the concepts, goals and processes that underpin the government's Indigenous policy can be applied to the principles outlined in chapter 2 that direct the native title system to the economic and social development of the traditional owner groups.

Or it could allocate positions to a national board or executive of representatives for particular sectors of the Indigenous community — for example, stolen generations members, traditional owners, youth, and Torres Strait Islanders (on the mainland and in Torres Strait).

By adopting the concept found in the government's broader Indigenous policy, of integrated planning at the local and regional level, the traditional owner structures can be integrated into the community and regional tiers of governance.

Yet if these tests do not satisfy the requirement of Indigenous people, that the process reflects the processes that command respect and authority within their community and the requirement of non-Indigenous people wishing to engage with traditional owner groups then they will not provide a basis for the economic and social development of the traditional owner group.

Another respondent said that regional boundaries should reflect the traditional owner boundaries that will be established by a new Indigenous regional authority.

It will also give Indigenous members of the community and the region who are not traditional owners an opportunity to represent their interests and communicate their concerns to traditional owners.

Whether particular groups of Indigenous peoples should be directly represented on the national body's structure (eg stolen generations, traditional owners, Torres Strait Islanders or youth);

Cooperatives are made up of traditional owners, other Indigenous people and, we were told, sometimes non-Indigenous people.

Another strategy for assisting traditional owners identify their goals that is often used by Indigenous organisations, particularly in land management projects, is participatory planning.

allocate dedicated positions on the national structure for designated segments of the Indigenous community — such as stolen generations members, traditional owners, youth or Torres Strait Islanders;

My hope is that we can establish a National Indigenous Representative Body that engages with the different sections of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community — be it women, our youth and children, communities in different geographical locations, traditional owners or stolen generations members.

Despite this, the changing and transforming nature of the relationship between Indigenous Australia and the broader Australian context provides greater opportunity for traditional owners to assess, design and modify governing structures to respond to their changing needs and values but most importantly to provide effective governance.

designating positions be allocated to the national body, or specific working groups, to represent particular sectors of the Indigenous community, such as women, Stolen Generation members, traditional owners, young people or Torres Strait Islanders

This high level of Indigenous input gives the resulting document greater legitimacy with traditional owners.

Before going specifically to the principles it is important to note that the overarching goal of the principles - the economic and social development of the traditional owner group, is consistent with the goals of the broader Indigenous policy which posits a range of economic and social development outcomes as urgent priorities.

While traditional owners are required to disclose their traditional knowledge in order to have their native title recognised, it provides some protection for Indigenous traditional knowledge particularly in relation to information about particular sites that may be classified by the traditional owner groups as being sacred.

Consistent with views expressed in the consultations, the AIATSIS Indigenous Facilitation and Mediation Project14 has identified a number of challenges that traditional owner groups face in managing internal relationships and group decision - making.

The requirement in Australia for corporations to be created to administer government funding to and engage with traditional owner groups ignores the existing polity or governance of traditional owner groups and may not support «a cohesive identity» for Indigenous peoples.

Such dialogue must be based on the active participation of traditional owners, Indigenous communities and their representative organisations.

The principles presented in this Report for promoting economic and social development through native title, seek to integrate the structures and values that are important to Indigenous peoples with the processes that will maximize the economic and social development outcomes for traditional owner groups.

Commendably, some state governments are explicitly guiding their various departments and agencies to engage with traditional owner groups as a particular part of the broader Indigenous community.

First that the process of identifying the group gives confidence to Indigenous people by reflecting the traditional ways of defining who has rights to country, and second, that it gives confidence to those seeking to develop productive partnerships with traditional owners that their dealings and investments will not be undermined in the future by claims from other groups and individuals.

It is essential that Government's seeking to implement changes to land rights or native title regimes, with the consent of traditional owners, must be careful to ensure that the legislation contains provisions that provide clear and effective decision - making processes; safeguards for the protection of Indigenous rights; and adequate resources so that land councils are able to effectively engage and advise on issues relating to the complex legal, economic, cultural and social implications of leasing Indigenous lands.

Local Indigenous organisations such as community councils or NTRBs could be used by the traditional owners and third parties as a representative of the traditional owner community.

Native title groups may wish to include other traditional owners, non-traditional owner Indigenous people or non-Indigenous people in their corporate structure to make it representative of the broader community in which they live, or to increase the corporation's pool of skills.

At various times, respondents raised concerns about government and companies» engagement with Indigenous people who are not traditional owners.

Traditional owners have been unhappy in both circumstances at the involvement of Indigenous people other than themselves.

The Murray Darling Basin Commission (MDBC) has worked with the Murray Lower Darling River Indigenous Nations (MLDRIN) and other representatives of Traditional Owners to gain support for the concept, and then undertook a pilot mapping project with an Indigenous community.

Building on the capacity of NTRBs and traditional owner groups in this way is consistent with the emphasis placed on good governance and capacity building in Indigenous communities under the government's Indigenous policy.

Truly representative of a diverse Indigenous polity (ensuring participation of different groups of Indigenous people including stolen generations, traditional owners, Torres Strait Islanders, youth and women for example).

The Traditional Owner groups of the Murray - Darling River Basin region identify as Indigenous Nations.

Traditional owners are valued members of Indigenous communities.

Reserves were established as areas of land to hold, control and protect Indigenous people as pastoralism and mining extended across Australia and the traditional owners were moved to make way for mining and grazing cattle and sheep.

The Commission urges the Authority, in its implementation of the legislation, to ensure that its actions are not only consistent with the procedural rights afforded to Traditional Owners by the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth), but that the free, prior and informed consent of Indigenous peoples is obtained before decisions affecting their lands and waters are made.

The Registrar of Aboriginal Corporations has hosted a similar process that brought together practitioners and traditional owners to discuss issues of Indigenous corporation membership and finance.40 These discussions could also be broadened to address other governance issues including separation of administrative and decision making roles, and transparent decision making.

Various parties involved in, or associated with, exploration and mining have adjusted their method of operating to provide recognition and input by traditional owners, [27] or have acknowledged that Indigenous people were excluded and disadvantaged from Australia's mineral history.

Governments have had the opportunity to legislatively override the narrow and difficult test for recognition, and the conversely expansive test for extinguishment; as well as to improve funding to Indigenous entities to assist traditional owners use their native title rights for economic benefit, and direct native title policies to broader goals.

Conversely, SRAs and RPAs will need to take account of native title and the special role of traditional owners within Indigenous communities in order to be effective and sustainable.

It provides a mechanism for divisions between different interest groups within the community, including between traditional owners and other Indigenous residents with an historical association with the land, to be discussed and resolved.