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DAY 1 - Wednesday 26^th June 2002  

Treaty Relations Between British Colonials and Indigenous Peoples in North America and New Zealand  

8am - 9am  

REGISTRATION, coffee and tea in the foyer Kim Beazley Lecture Theatre

9.00 – 9.10  

Welcome to Country - Mr Mort Hansen Metropolitan Nyoongar Council of Elders 

9.10 – 9.20  

Opening: The Deputy President of the Native Title Tribunal  Hon. Fred Chaney AO  

9.20 – 9.50  

ATSIC representative – Mr Farley Garlett, Chairperson Perth Regional Council - ‘Treaty Lets Get it Right’  

The Chancellor will introduce Premier Paul Okalik  

9.50 –10.30  

Premier Paul Okalik, Nunavut, Canada – Treaty Context – Reflections on Success  

10.30 –11.00

Morning Tea  Foyer - Kim Beazley Foyer

Keynote Speakers - The International Context  

11.00 –12.00

Professor Michael Blumm – Natural Resource Law: The US Experience  

Dr Donald Nicholls The Canadian Experience

12.00 –1.00

Ms Moana Sinclair-UN Indigenous Protocols   

Ms Ulli Corbett "Declaring Our Intentions: A Declaration For The Future."

1.00 – 2.00  

2.00 – 3.00

Professor Ralph Simmonds - Customary Law and Treaty.  Professor Simmonds will introduce   Professor Garth Nettheim - International Human Rights: Basis for Indigenous Treaty

3.00 –3.45  

The Honourable David Malcolm, Chief Justice of Western Australia -Treaty  Issues,  Agenda  and the Way Forward

3.45 – 4.00

Afternoon Tea - Kim Beazley Foyer 

 4.00 – 5.30

Question Time /Panel discussion Chair: Dr. William Jonas. Panel members include Fred Chaney, Farley Garlett (ATSIC rep), Paul Okalik, Moana Sinclair, Garth Nettheim, Michael Blumm, Ralph Simmonds, Donald Nicholls and  David Malcolm, Ulli Corbett

5.45 –7.00

• KBLT = KIM BEAZLEY LECTURE THEATRE      BHLT= BRIAN HILL LECTURE THEATRE  

• SSHE=SOCIAL SCIENCES, HUMANITIES & EDUCATION COMMON ROOM

• ROOM ECL2. ECL3 &  ECL4  = ECONOMICS COMMERCE AND LAW LECTURE THEATRES

DAY 2 -   Thursday 27^th    June 2002  TREATY  IN HISTORY

9.00 -9.05

9.05 – 9.30  

Dr William Jonas- The History of Human Rights   in Australian Law  

9.30 –10.45  

Mr Gatjil Djerrkura OAM - ‘Indigenous Peoples,    Constitutions and Treaties  

10.45–11.00

Morning Tea  - The Refectory

11.00-11.30

SELF RULE Speaker 1  Mr Michael Mansell  ‘Treaty & Final Settlement?’

11.30-12.00

Speaker 2 Rev. Cedric Jacobs

Irreconcilable differences or Missed Opportunity? The National Aboriginal Conference on Makarrata Treaty  

Speaker 8 – Dr Tim Rowse The Treaty debate 1979-1983

12.00-12.30

Speaker 3 Mr Richie Ah Mat The Cape York Experience

Speaker 9 –Professor Bob Reece Some Early Indigenous Initiatives in Treaty- Making.  

12.30-1.00

Speaker 4  Stephen Robson, Indigenous consent and reconciliation - non Indigenous views  in the federal native title debate. 

Speaker 10– Dr Peter Read  “Strongly For and Strongly Against: A re-examination of some of the opinions of the 1980's on a Treaty'  

1.00-2.00

 Lunch  in the Refectory 

2.00- 2.30

Speaker 5  Mr Glenn Shaw  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sovereignty – Reality or Myth  

Speaker 11  Dr Sandy Toussaint Interrogating Natural Justice: Treaty, Native Title and the Politics/ Poetics/ Passivity of a Reconciled Nation.

2.30-3.00

Speaker 6   Mr Dean Collard NOONGAR  NATION  Negotiating settlements -The Yokai Noongar Nation Treaty Forum

Speaker 12   Mr Steven Churches  The 1890 Constitutional Agreement in favour of the Indigenous of WA: Put not your faith in Princes  

3.00-3.30

Speaker 6 – Mr Dennis Eggington NOONGAR  NATION  ‘Noongar Nation: Progress of the Process’

Speaker 13    Mr Ravi de Costa The British Columbia Treaty Process: Some Thoughts for Australian Treaties    

3.30-3.45

Afternoon Tea  - The Refectory

3.45- 4.15

Speaker 7   Mr Joel Wright Apartheid: Australian Style 2002  

Speaker 14  Dr. Lisa Strelein “Missed meanings –The Language of Sovereignty in the Treaty Debate”  

4.15 – 5.30  

Hypothetical  with Tony Buti: Panel Members: Michael Mansell, Dennis Eggington, Glenn Shaw, Bill Jonas, David Malcolm, Fred Chaney, Meg Friel, David Ritter, Bruce Lawson (Rio Tinto), Nova Peris and David Weisbrot, Hon. Carmen Lawrence, Clarrie Isaacs and everybody.

DINNER

7.30 -11.00

Fremantle Sailing Club -NOT TO BE MISSED EVENT  7.30 Pre Dinner Drinks , 8pm Dinner with Mary G and Band Fremantle Sailing Club  - Dinner cost $65  open to anyone who wishes to register just for dinner

DAY 3 - FRIDAY 28^th June 2002   Should Australia Seek to Negotiate a Treaty/Agreement? And if So What Should We Seek to Accomplish?

8.45 –9.15

Ms Nova Peris - Treaty Community Package Introduced by the Executive Dean of BITL,  Prof. Catherine Smith    ROOM ECL2

9.15 -9.45

9.45-10.15

Workshop 15  Greg McIntyre Native Title Holding Communities as Treaty Parties, ROOM ECL2 

Workshop 20 Mr David Ritter Quacks like a Duck?  Measuring the Nganawongka Wadjari and Ngarla native title determination against the criteria of a treaty.  ROOM ECL4

10.15-10.45

Workshop 16  Mr Michael Barker QC Treaty: What’s in a Name?    ROOM ECL2

Workshop 21  Mr Greg McConville Regional Agreements, Higher Education and Representations of Indigenous Australian Reality  

10.45-11.15

Morning Tea  - ECL 3

11.15-11.45

Workshop 17 Ms Sue Stanton The Challenge for Australia   ROOM ECL2

 Workshop 22  ROOM ECL4  Dr Roderic Pitty What's in a Treaty as Reconciliation?  

11.45-12.15

Workshop 18 Dr Angeline O'Neill Talking and Writing Towards Treaty  ROOM ECL2

• Workshop 23 Mr Nicholas Garrett  Reconciliation and Australian Aboriginal Art   ROOM ECL4 

12.15-12.45

Workshop 19 Ms Meg Friel Legal, Administrative and Political Arrangements     ROOM ECL2

Workshop 24 Ms Hannah McGlade, ATSIC pilot program   ROOM ECL4

12.45-1.45

LUNCH   - The Refectory

1.45 – 2.15

Mr Ribnga Green - Aboriginal nations collectively and individually have never ceded their ties to their country. Will the execution of a treaty compromise this?  ROOM ECL2

2.15 –3.00

Final Plenary,  Ideas and Recommendations for Government, Community and Academics   Chair Dr William Jonas . Panel members will include  Ms Ulli Corbett, Premier Paul Okalik, Don Nichols,  Moana Sinclair, Hon Carmen Lawrence and Dr Tim Rowse

3.OO  

Farewell

3.15

Birth Rights video  Interviews with Inuit and Aboriginal Women on issues about birthingECL2