ANU First Nations Portfolio
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The First Nations Portfolio provides an environment for debating significant and strategic issues and seeks to partner with communities, their representative organisations, and enterprises to further the status, recognition and lives of Indigenous peoples. To achieve this outcome requires constant attention to impact, engagement and partnership with First Nations communities, and a commitment to innovative and multidisciplinary approaches to our work. We strive to make a leading contribution to national policy in terms of the relationship between Indigenous Australians and the nation. Primarily, this occurs through collaborations with existing ANU research and education units and the formation of partnerships between the University and Indigenous communities and stakeholders.
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Item Open Access Case Studies Report. Baseline Study - Agricultural Capacity of the Indigenous Estate(Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia, 2022-06-01) McArthur, Lorrae; Barnett, Russell; Qureshi, Muhammed Ejaz; Stacey, BrianThe analysis of the five case studies identifies that First Nations primary production industries are diverse, increasingly financially sustainable and delivering significant cultural, environmental and social benefits to local First Nations communities and the broader national economy. First Nations people are willing and successful participants in primary industries. The preconditions to First Nations participation include mechanisms that enable technical, commercial and governance capabilities, including through external agencies and through existing cultural governance arrangements. Governance frameworks based on holding-subsidiary company models that provide appropriate cultural and community oversight, whilst separating operational management of the primary production enterprise, are common place among First Nations primary industries businesses and appear to be a tried-and-tested model. Access to capital and other services and data are equally important enablers. The reliability of leases, and other tenure, limits land holders’ access to capital. Commonwealth, state and territory agencies and instrumentalities provide financial, research and advisory services to First Nations primary production businesses. Of note, the ILSC has been an important resource for First Nations primary production enterprises to build capabilities, divest land and grant funding. Also crucial are the networks and genuine, meaningful collaboration among First Nations organisations. These support culturally appropriate frameworks for sustainable development, enable partnerships and access to supply chains and markets, provide advocacy and specialist expertise, support innovations, and generate data. When afforded capacity and capabilities, First Nations primary production industries optimise the sustainable use of natural resources together with maintaining cultural and biodiversity assets. Business models are founded on preserving culture and caring for Country and creating social dividends for local First Nations communities. Development interests go beyond mainstream primary industries and build on natural and cultural capital. Interests encompass emerging and innovative land and water-based enterprises, such as native bushfoods production, botanical pharmaceuticals, carbon farming and agritourism, some of which already contribute to national gross domestic product.Item Open Access Baseline Study - Agricultural Capacity of the Indigenous Estate(Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia, 2022-07-01) Barnett, Russell; Normyle, Anna; Doran, Bruce; Vardon, MichaelThe purpose of the situational analysis is to attain a better understanding of the relationship between First Nations primary production enterprises and the larger Australian primary industries, focusing primarily on agriculture. The study identifies that: - While a significant amount of primary production occurs on the First Nations Estate, a significant majority of this is not undertaken by First Nations primary production enterprises. - There is still a relatively small, but emerging and unique First Nations primary production industry that is diverse, increasingly financially sustainable, and delivering significant cultural, environmental and social benefits to local First Nations communities. - There is opportunity to grow the First Nations primary production industry so that it makes a significant and unique contribution to the growth targets of Australian primary industries – beyond what the agricultural industry or the Australian Government have contemplated. To achieve this mutually beneficial outcome for Australia’s First Nations people and their agricultural industry, a concerted effort needs to be made to better understand: - the nature and extent of agricultural production that takes place on the Indigenous Estate, - the nature and extent of the First Nations primary production industry; opportunities to accelerate First Nations agricultural capability development, - attraction of social impact and other Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) oriented investment to the emerging sector. This effort needs to be overseen and driven by a multi-stakeholder, mission-oriented industry development governance framework. Key recommendations include: 1. Establish adequately reliable agricultural, fisheries, aquaculture and forestry economic data pertaining to the Indigenous Estate and Indigenous primary production enterprises. 2. Develop a portfolio of positive First Nations primary industries case studies to generate stakeholder (including investor) confidence in the First Nations primary industry sectors. 3. Engage with the global social impact investment sector to develop a framework for identifying potential flow across First Nations primary production in Australia. 4. Establish a First Nations primary industries taskforce to develop strategies and initiatives to: a) identify opportunities, and activate primary production from underutilised areas of the Indigenous Estate. b) identify and advocate for changes to legislation as necessary to optimally facilitate increased production from the Indigenous Estate and ESG collaborations. c) identify opportunities and develop strategies to optimise market access, enter new markets and develop new productsItem Open Access Fighting for Aboriginal Self-Determination - Forty Years of Policy Conflict in the Kimberley (Episode 3)(Nulungu Research Institute, 2022) Speaker: Patrick Sullivan; Speaker: Steve KinnaneAcross Australia and throughout our colonial history, the space where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people meet white people has often been fraught and challenging. The self determination of Australia's First Nations people has been at the mercy of government policy, industry and the politics of the time. For the people of the Kimberley, in far north Western Australia, these influences have played no small part in determining the welfare of Aboriginal people and how they interact with mainstream Australia today. This series of conversations explores the legacy of government interventions and bureaucracy on Kimberley Aboriginal people, and the resilience that has grown from the struggle to protect their land and human rights.Item Open Access Fighting for Aboriginal Self-Determination - Forty Years of Policy Conflict in the Kimberley (Episode 5)(Nulungu Research Institute, 2022) Speaker: Patrick Sullivan; Speaker: Steve KinnaneAcross Australia and throughout our colonial history, the space where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people meet white people has often been fraught and challenging. The self determination of Australia's First Nations people has been at the mercy of government policy, industry and the politics of the time. For the people of the Kimberley, in far north Western Australia, these influences have played no small part in determining the welfare of Aboriginal people and how they interact with mainstream Australia today. This series of conversations explores the legacy of government interventions and bureaucracy on Kimberley Aboriginal people, and the resilience that has grown from the struggle to protect their land and human rights.Item Open Access Fighting for Aboriginal Self-Determination - Forty Years of Policy Conflict in the Kimberley (Episode 4)(Nulungu Research Institute, 2022) Speaker: Patrick Sullivan; Speaker: Steve KinnaneAcross Australia and throughout our colonial history, the space where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people meet white people has often been fraught and challenging. The self determination of Australia's First Nations people has been at the mercy of government policy, industry and the politics of the time. For the people of the Kimberley, in far north Western Australia, these influences have played no small part in determining the welfare of Aboriginal people and how they interact with mainstream Australia today. This series of conversations explores the legacy of government interventions and bureaucracy on Kimberley Aboriginal people, and the resilience that has grown from the struggle to protect their land and human rights.Item Open Access Fighting for Aboriginal Self-Determination - Forty Years of Policy Conflict in the Kimberley (Episode 1)(Nulungu Research Institute, 2022) Speaker: Patrick Sullivan; Speaker: Steve KinnaneAcross Australia and throughout our colonial history, the space where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people meet white people has often been fraught and challenging. The self determination of Australia's First Nations people has been at the mercy of government policy, industry and the politics of the time. For the people of the Kimberley, in far north Western Australia, these influences have played no small part in determining the welfare of Aboriginal people and how they interact with mainstream Australia today. This series of conversations explores the legacy of government interventions and bureaucracy on Kimberley Aboriginal people, and the resilience that has grown from the struggle to protect their land and human rights.Item Open Access Fighting for Aboriginal Self-Determination - Forty Years of Policy Conflict in the Kimberley (Episode 2)(Nulungu Research Institute, 2022) Speaker: Patrick Sullivan; Speaker: Steve KinnaneAcross Australia and throughout our colonial history, the space where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people meet white people has often been fraught and challenging. The self determination of Australia's First Nations people has been at the mercy of government policy, industry and the politics of the time. For the people of the Kimberley, in far north Western Australia, these influences have played no small part in determining the welfare of Aboriginal people and how they interact with mainstream Australia today. This series of conversations explores the legacy of government interventions and bureaucracy on Kimberley Aboriginal people, and the resilience that has grown from the struggle to protect their land and human rights.