Indigenous Governance Conference, Canberra, 2-5 April 2002
Reconciliation Australia’s Indigenous Governance Conference was the first of its kind in Australia. Key conference themes and issues included:
- defining Australian Indigenous governance and good governance at the community and regional levels
- the current effectiveness of, and limitations upon, Indigenous structures and institutions for governance at the community and regional level
- current legislative and corporate frameworks
- possible models for advancing stable and accountable community and regional governance
- existing and potential fiscal relationships
- leadership and representation
- defining capacity building and training for governance
- dispute resolution and community justice
- best-practice lessons from Australia and overseas, and
- Indigenous governance into the future.
(Note: All documents are in Microsoft Word format.)
Background Material
- Speakers Biographies
- Background paper: The importance of indigenous governance to social and economic development
Conference Papers
- Sir William Deane, Opening Speech
- Professor Stephen Cornell, Evidence from the United States on Indigenous Self-Governance
- Manley Begay, Corporate and institutional for Indigenous self governance
- Neil Sterritt, Defining Indigeneous Governance: the experience in Canada
- Alison Anderson, Lessons from Anangu system of Governance
- Marcia Langton, Ancient Jurisdictions, Aboriginal Polities and Sovereignty
- William_(Sam) Jeffries, Regional and community perspectives from Murdi Paaki Regional Council
- Terry Waia, Greater Autonomy and Improved Governance in the Torres Strait Region
- Alan Morris, Overview of the Commonwealth Grants Commission
- Parry Agius, Towards a fiscal relations framework for Community and Regional Governance, experience from Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement
- Grand Chief Edward John, Toward a fiscal relations framework for Community and Regional Governance, experience from British Columbia
- Robert_Yazzie, Community Justice, Law and Governance: experience from the Navajo Nation Court
- Dr William Jones Community Justice, Law and Governance; a rights perspective from HREOC
- Peter Yu , Aboriginal Rights and Governance; a Kimberly perspective
- Galarrwuy_Yunupingu, Legitimacy, Governance and Aboriginal Tradition
- Grand Chief Edward John, Goverance and Sustainable Economic Development
- John Ah Kit, Good news for once: fiscal relationships between Governments and Aboriginal people
- Professor_Larissa Behrendt, Globalisation and self-determination: the challenges for sovereignty and governance
- Professor Jon Altman, Enhancing economic development: Governance challenges facing Indigenous communities within Australia’s federal system
- Dr Will Sanders, Good governance for Indigenous communities and regions: more diverse than unified, as much process as structure
- Winsome Mathews, Circle sentencing: NSW trial
- Jackie Huggins, Family Violence in Indigenous communities: systemic failure of good governance
- Diane Smith, Towards a fiscal framework for resourcing Indigenous community governance in Australia
- Patrick_Dodson, Leadership and capacity building for Community and Regional Governance
- John_Ah_Kit, A Chinaman in the woodpile - or a Blackfella in the House?
- David_Martin, Developing strong and effective Aboriginal institutions
- Dr Stephen Cornell, Governance and economic development
- Dr Manley_Begay, The unstable policy world of Native Leaders, the experience from the United States
- Maralampuwi_Kurrupuwu, Case Study: Tiwi Islands Local Government
- Sir_Tipene O'Regan, Indigenous Governance: a Maori perspective
- Chief_Sophie_Pierre OBC , Case Study: First Nations Financing Authority, British Columbia
Conference Outcomes
- Indigenous Governance Conference Outcomes
- Fred_Chaney, Final outcomes and next steps