Terri Janke, Solicitor Director, Terri Janke & Company
In the past 20 years Indigenous Australians have called for greater recognition of Indigenous cultural and intellectual property rights. The intellectual property system doesn't acknowledge Indigenous…
Host: Dr Richard Denniss, Executive Director
Indigenous Australians residing in communities in regional and remote Australia are among Australia's most disadvantaged partly because of limited formal economic opportunity. In these…
Dr Maggie Brady and Professor Robin Room, The Australian National university and The University of Melbourne
This public lecture challenges some of the common beliefs that surround Indigenous Australians and the history of 'grog', by discussing the findings of the newly released publication First Taste:…
Various speakers
In delivering an apology to the Stolen Generations the Prime Minister set a concrete target to halve the gap in infant mortality rates between Indigenous and non-Indigenous children within a decade.…
Lieutenant General John Sanderson AC, Special Advisor on Indigenous Affairs to the Government of Western Australia
In this lecture, Lieutenant General John Sanderson argues that the national approach to Indigenous issues can broadly be described as ‘assimilationist’ – the belief that the only hope…
Professor Danielle Conway-Jones, Terri Janke, Dr Matthew Rimmer
In intellectual property, there has been much interest of late in the creative use of contract law - especially with the development of the Creative Commons. By necessity, Indigenous communities…
Steve Larkin, Principal, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS)
Steve Larkin, Principal, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), explores the unique role of AIATSIS in promoting scholarship that has been relevant and…
Phil Fontaine, National Chief of Canada's Assembly of First Nations
Like Australia, Canada faces challenges in resolving the grievances of First Nation peoples harmed by past policies. Phil Fontaine, the National Chief of Canada's Assembly of First Nations, has been…
Father Frank Brennan, SJ, AO
Late in his term on the High Court, Justice McHugh, one of the majority in the Mabo decision and one of the dissentients in Wik, expressed criticism of the "costly and time-consuming" native title system.…
Emeritus Professor Peter Russell, University of Toronto
A judicial revolution occurred in 1992 when the High Court discarded the doctrine of terra nullius in the Mabo case. The ruling had repercussions for Indigenous peoples within Australia and around the…
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