Lenore Dembski
Paperbark Woman

• Illustrating how property rights are the foundation for socio-economic advancement
• Enabling Indigenous self-sufficiency through recognition of Native Title rights
• Re-assessing how Native Title claims are settled
• The need for Native Title to be settled by agreement and be relevant to the claimant’s needs

• The context in which Traditional Owners participate in resource sector activity
• A social license to operate in the context of an Indigenous perspective for the resources sector
• Participating in the opportunities of your traditional country, and balancing cultural and environmental values
• Looking to examples of best practice resource agreements from other parts of the world

• Illustrating the limited opportunities available for economic development without land tenure
• Ensuring proper consultation with Traditional Owners takes place before land tenure reform
• Outlining how the Goldfields region are still undergoing settlement processes

• Assisting Traditional Owners to understand land tenure opportunities and how to become property owners
• Establishing terms of settlement negotiation
• Catering for Native Title settlement
• Sustaining the land for economic development

• Preparation
• Capacity building
• Implementation
• On-going monitoring

• Integrating Indigenous land management values into resource agreements
• Moving beyond business-as-usual on cultural heritage and environmental protection
• The implementation challenge – transforming agreements into outcomes

• Recognising industry’s contribution to Indigenous economic development
• How industry and Indigenous communities work together

Delegates will break into groups to discuss key challenges raised during day one

Conference attendees and speakers are invited to join us for a complimentary networking dinner

Lenore Dembski
Paperbark Woman

• Increasing Traditional Owner involvement in carbon trading in the Kimberley
• Utilising Traditional cultural knowledge and western scientific methods for sustainable employment
• Environmental conservation by investing money from carbon trading into Indigenous projects and initiatives

• National Indigenous climate change action
• Carbon farming initiatives – what’s in it for us? • Carbon markets and industry investment
• Indigenous carbon farming in 2022 and 2062

• Understanding what drives Indigenous people to pursue and sustain complex and dangerous land management practices
• Illustrating how land management projects with meaning can strengthen relationships across cultural divides
• Providing the framework to strengthen culture and economic development for improved overall community

• Outlining the landmark deal for property purchased through a conservation organisation-Indigenous Land Corporation-Federal Government agreement
• Purchasing a cattle station for conservation and land management with ownership to be passed onto Traditional Owners
• Illustrating rapidly developing new opportunities in Indigenous land management

• Outlining a role for Traditional Owners in planning and development
• The right of veto over any unacceptable exploration
• A share in the project income
• A low impact exploration plan
• A strategy to ensure the protection of heritage values

• Enabling training
• Employment
• Strengthened cultural connection
• Bound by formal arrangements

• Going beyond initial consultation
• Creating platforms for policies and procedures to be ongoing
• Facilitating cultural landscape mapping
• •Utilising recommendations from Traditional Owners to assist in management of natural areas

Delegates will break into groups to discuss key challenges raised throughout the conference