Jointly convened by the CNTA and Queensland South Native Title Services and Anthropology Department, University of Queensland

The 2016 CNTA Annual Conference was held on 4-5 February 2016 at Women's College, University of Queensland, Brisbane. Attendance was high with 76 registered participants. The program comprised a mix of presentations and group discussion of hypotheticals. Practical advice for anthropologist acting as court experts was provided in Justice Rangiah's Key Note Address.

Adelaide anthropologists, Drs Deane Fergie, Rod Lucas and linguist Paul Monaghan presented an ethnographic film on how concurrent anthropological evidence is given in contested claims before the federal court. Other important topics covered by presenters were community development (Dr Danielle Campbell from CLC, and Bruce Martin, consultant), compensation claims (Lee Sackett) and the intersection of history with anthropology (Dr Hilda Maclean).

CNTA woud like to recognise the presence of Emeritus Professor Bruce Rigsby who attended.

Conference papers and reference documents

• Introduction: The future of native title anthropology by Nicolas Peterson (169K PDF)
• A community development approach to using income streams from Aboriginal lands
  (Powerpoint) by Central Land Council (1.2 Meg PDF)
• Beyond native title: Economic development challenges on Wik Country by Bruce Martin (Powerpoint) (514K PDF)
• Governance of native title corporations:What does anthropology have to say? by David Martin (Powerpoint) (283K PDF)
• Hypothetical: the Wangkangana-Bunjida PBC by David Martin (276K PDF)
• The work of rights: Quantifying and contextualising the labour burdens of PBCs by Pamela McGrath (Powerpoint) (1.5 Meg PDF)
• The future of native title anthropology: A Representative Body perspective by Olivia Norris (147K PDF)
• Native title-holders, development, and community development by Nicolas Peterson (165K PDF)
• Expert anthropological evidence: A Justice's perspective by Justice Darryl Rangiah (136K PDF)
• Hypothetical: native title research challenges - territorial succession, group membership, cultural change by David Trigger and Kim De Rijke
• Central Land Council Community Development Program (1.3 Meg PDF)
• Fact sheet: Legal context for PBC decision making, Aurora Project 2012 (352K PDF)
• The four basic PBC prototypes (520K PDF)
• Native Title Act - PBC Regulations 8, 8A, 9 (268K PDF)