Event: Making Native Title consent laws matter: a conversation with politicians about reform agendas. 28 Sept 2021

Event: Making Native Title consent laws matter: a conversation with politicians about reform agendas. 28 Sept 2021

In this important event, politicians from the main Australian political parties will outline their policies and reform programs for how Traditional Owners give consent for use of their lands and waters.

Moderator: A/Prof Shelley Marshall

2021 RMIT University report, First Peoples and Land Justice Issues in Australia, highlighted omissions in native title law, as well as heritage and environmental laws, to give expression to international human rights laws concerning how Traditional Owners give consent for business to use of their land.

In this important event, politicians from the main Australian political parties will outline their policies and reform programs for how Traditional Owners give consent for use of their lands and waters. They will then take questions from a First Nations expert panel.  The speakers are Senator Lidia Thorpe (National Greens spokesperson for First Nations, Justice, and Sport), Mr Graham Perrett MP (Deputy Chair of Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights), and Jolleen Hicks (Aboriginal Insights).

This event was held on Tuesday, 28 September 2021 - 1:00 PM – 2:15 PM AEST

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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.