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Tuesday 16 August

S45 MAJOR PANEL – ENGAGING INDIGENOUS PEOPLE PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY THE QUEENSLAND DEPARTMENT OF ABORIGINAL & TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER POLICY Chair: Penny Tripcony Brisbane, Australia Room: GH1&2/Door 7   The Hon. John Mickel MP Minister for Energy & Minister for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Policy, Queensland Government, Brisbane, Australia   Darryl Pearce South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Corporation, Perth, Australia   Vince Mundraby Yarrabah Shire Council, Yarrabah, Australia   Shane Williams Office of Indigenous Policy Coordination, Brisbane, Australia   Elissavet Stamatopoulou-Robbins Secretariat for the UN Permanent Forum, New York, USA

S68 ENGAGING INDIGENOUS PEOPLE I Chair: Tony Dreise Queensland Dept of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy, Brisbane, Australia Room: P2 2.20pm Creating Opportunities for Positive Engagement: Aboriginal People, Government and Resource Development in Australia Ciaran O’Faircheallaigh Department of Politics and Public Policy, Griffith University, Nathan, Australia 2.40pm “you me – working together” – The Lockhart River Story (Government Champion’s Perspective) Jim Varghese Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, Brisbane, Australia 3.00pm Partners in Business: The Outback Spirit Supply Chain Model Lisa Robins Robins Environmental Consulting, Canberra, Australia

S69 ENGAGING INDIGENOUS PEOPLE II Chair: Colin Dillon Queensland Dept of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy, Brisbane, Australia Room: P3 2.20pm Engaging with Indigenous Communities in Natural Resource Management: Advice for Agencies Helen Ross University of Queensland, Gatton, Australia 2.40pm CSIRO/ANU Indigenous Engagement Project Mick Dodson National Centre for Indigenous Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia & Steve Morton CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Canberra, Australia 3.00pm ‘Having a Yarn’: Engaging Indigenous Communities in Natural Resource Management Melissa Nursey-Bray CRC Reef Research, Railway Estate, Australia

S78 ENGAGING INDIGENOUS PEOPLE III Chair: Ainslie Waldron Queensland Dept of Main Roads, Brisbane, Australia Room: M2 4.00pm Engaging Aboriginal People and Torres Strait Islanders Paul Elliott Department of Emergency Services, Cairns, Australia 4.20pm Must be the Grog can’t be the Government: Relationships Between Government and Indigenous people in Australia John Tomlinson Queensland University of Technology, Carseldine, Australia 4.40pm Institutionalising a Participatory Cross-Culture for Indigenous Sustainability: A Study of Housing in Western Australia Dora Marinova Institute for Sustainability and Technology Policy, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Australia 5.00pm The South East Queensland Traditional Owner Consultative Committee: A Case Study for Effective and Sustainable Aboriginal Community Engagement Frameworks Madonna William Jagera Association Inc. & S.E.Q.T.O.C.C., Brisbane, Australia

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Wednesday 17 August

S102 ENGAGING INDIGENOUS PEOPLE THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS Chair: tbc Room: P4 11.00am The Nova Scotia Sustainable Communities Initiative (SCI) Laurie Alexander NS Sustainable Communities Initiative, Nova Scotia, Canada 11.20am Partnerships Queensland Tony Dreise Queensland Department of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Policy, Brisbane, Australia 11.40am Indigenous Community Engagement Experiences of Rural Community Empowerment in the Rangelands Region of Southern Australia Peter Marin & Bart Dessart Rural Solutions SA, Adelaide, Australia 12.00pm Working in Partnership with Indigenous People Graham Paterson Westpac Banking Corporation, Sydney, Australia

S105 ENGAGING INDIGENOUS PEOPLE: INNOVATIVE PRACTICE Chair: Brad Saunders Queensland Dept of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy, Brisbane, Australia Room: F1 11.00am The Learning Circles of Lockhart River Denise Hagan Queensland Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy, Brisbane, Australia 11.30am Positive Partnerships with Modern Medium – “A Community Story by Community People” Ros Kneebone Queensland Department of Local Government, Planning Sport and Recreation, Cairns, Australia

S110 ENGAGING INDIGENOUS PEOPLE IV Chair: Ros Kneebone Queensland Department of Local Government, Planning Sport & Recreation, Cairns, Australia Room: M1 1.30pm From Strategy to Reality: A Model for Community Engagement Wendy Ah Chin Office of the Commissioner for Public Employment, Darwin, Australia 1.50pm Opening a Dialogue and Moving Towards a Sustainable Relationship John Russell Metropolitan Fire Brigade, Fitzroy North, Australia & Lisa Thorpe Victorian Aboriginal Health Service Co-Operative Ltd, Melbourne, Australia 2.10pm Cross-cultural (mis)Communication in a Regional Forest Agreement Process David Lloyd Southern Cross University, Lismore, Australia 2.30pm Engaging Aboriginal Communities for Mutual Outcomes: The North Queensland Gas Pipeline Project Jonathan Fulcher Minter Ellison Lawyers, Brisbane, Australia & Paul Maloney NQGP Alliance & Frank Budby Woora Consulting

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