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SPEAKERS
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| Day 1 | The Premier, Government of Nunavut, Mr Paul Okalik, invitation accepted. The Honourable Premier, Government of Nunavut, Mr Paul Okalik -the successfully negotiated Canadian Territory of Nunavut. Paul Okalik was chosen by his peers as the first Premier of Nunavut on March 5, 1999. He also hols the portfolios of Executive and Inter-governmental Affairs and Justice. Mr Okalik was a member of the negotiation team for the Nunavut Land Claim Agreement, the largest land claim in Canadian History, signed in 1993. He holds degrees in Political science and Canadian Studies and Law from the University of Ottawa. |
| Professor Michael Blumm, Lewis & Clark college, Northwestern School of Law, Portland -"US Treaty History" Micahel Blumm is Professor of Law at Lewis & Clark College, Northwestern School of Law in Portland Oregon, USA where he teaches environmental law, public lands and resources law and Native American natural resources law. He is the preeminent expert on Indian fishing rights. blumm@lclark.edu US Treaty History | |
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The
Hon. David Kingsley Malcolm AC Cit WA was appointed Chief Justice of
Western Australia in 1988. In
1990 he was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Western Australia.
In
1992 he made a Companion of the Order of Australia.
In 1999 he was elected as an Honorary Bencher of Lincoln’s Inn,
London. In 2000 he was
awarded the Honour of Citizen of the Year in Western Australia in the
category of the Professions. He
graduated with an LL.B from the University of Western Australia in 1959
with first class honours and was Rhodes Scholar from Western Australia
in 1960. In 1962 he
obtained his BCL at Oxford with first class honours.
He was admitted to practice in 1964.
He was a partner with the firm of Freehill Hollingdale & Page
and its predecessor firm in Perth from 1964 to 1979.
He
acted as Counsel and Deputy General Counsel for the Asian Development
Bank based in Manila between 1967 and 1970.
He practised widely in many areas of the law including commercial
and corporate law, mining, media, shipping and administrative law. He was Chairman of the Law Reform Commission of Western
Australia in 1976 and from 1979 to 1982 and a member of the Copyright
Tribunal from 1979 to 1982. He
was Queen’s Counsel from 1980 to 1988, President of the Western
Australian Bar Association from 1981 to 1984 and Vice-President of the
Australian Bar Association in 1984.
He was Vice-President of the Law Society of Western Australia
from 1986 to 1988 and Chairman, Town Planning Appeals Tribunal from 1978
to 1986. He has been the
Chairman of the Judicial Section of the Law Association for Asia and the
Pacific since 1991. He
has been a member of the LAWASIA since 1968.
He is the Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Crime Research
Centre at the University of Western Australia, President of the Western
Australian Branch of the International Commission of Jurists and a
member of the Board of Directors of the Society for the Reform of
Criminal Law. |
| Day 1 | Ms Neva Collings, Vice-President Ngalaya Aboriginal Corporation (Indigenous Lawyers Association)Neva began her professional career working with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner at the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission in 1995 whilst completing a Bachelor of Economics/Laws at Sydney University. Neva then coordinated the Indigenous Law Centre at UNSW before a short stint with Gundjehmi Aboriginal Corporation in 1999. In June 2000 Neva was posted to Geneva as the International Projects Officer for the Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action. Presently Neva works as a research consultant and part-time with a new website company. International human rights into framework agreements |
| Day 1 | Prof Garth Nettheim at UNSW Law School. g.nettheim@unsw.edu.au International issues Professor Garth Nettheim is Australia's preeminent Indigenous legal rights academic. He commenced his career in law teaching in 1963 and joined the UNSW Faculty of Law in its first year of operation, 1971. He served as Dean and Head of School in 1975-1978 and, again, in 1987-1988. Garth retired from full time teaching in 1996 and is Emeritus Professor of Law at UNSW and an Honorary Visiting Professor in the Faculty where he continues to maintain a hectic teaching, research and consulting schedule teaching Indigenous Legal Issues and Human Rights Law in both the LLB and LLM programs. He is the founding director of the UNSW Indigenous Law Centre and the guiding light behind the Australian Indigenous Law Reporter. His major publications include: Indigenous Peoples and Governance Structures: A Comparative Analysis of Land and Resource Management Rights (with GD Meyers and D Craig) forthcoming (Aboriginal Studies Press, 2002); Understanding Law (5th ed, 1997) with R Chisholm; and Indigenous Legal Issues: Commentary and Materials (2nd ed, 1997) (with H McRae and L Beacroft). |
| Ms Ulli (Helen) Corbett, Ulli Corbett is a Yamitji-Noongar from Western Australia who has worked for three decades for Indigenous community based organisations at all levels. She co-initiated the national and international campaign for the establishment of the federal Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. Of particular note has been her work on the drafting of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People and the establishment of the UN Permanent Forum for Indigenous People. Currently she is facilitating consultative process of the ATSIC’s Treaty Community Awareness Project within the Perth Noongar area. "Declaring our intentions: A Declaration for the future." | |
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| Day 2 | Mr Kevin Dolman, General Manager, Imparja Media Association and previously Aboriginal Lawyer and Consultant on Regional Agreements - speaking on the future of Treaty) Kevin is an Eastern Arrernte man from central Australia. He has trained in law, commerce and journalism and has had 15 years experience in a range of capacities in Aboriginal affairs, from working in the public sector in employment, training and business planning, to public affairs and Indigenous legal issues while at the Aboriginal Legal Service of WA. He has substantial knowledge of the issues arising from, and the pitfalls and potential, of regional agreements and service delivery agreements made between indigenous communities, government and/or industry. A Treaty Between Ourselves First of All? |
| Day 2 | Ms Hannah McGlade, Visiting Research Fellow, AIATSIS |
| Day 1 | Ms Moana Sinclair LLM, Indigenous Maori Lawyer, Currently working for the United Nations High Commission, Geneva, for Human Rights on the Indigenous Projects Team. Her paper will address the "Treaty Question" |
| Professor, Gary Meyers, Murdoch University | |
| Day 1 | Dr Roderic Pitty, Deakin University WHAT’S IN A TREATY AS RECONCILIATION? |
| Professor Ralph Simmonds, Murdoch University and The Law Reform Commission | |
| Day 3 | Sue Stanton, Indigenous Lecturer in Aboriginal Studies, Woollongong University. Title: Theme 3 - Sue Stanton is a Kungarakan-Gurindji woman from the NT currently working as a Lecturer in Aboriginal Studies at University of Wollongong - and a final year PhD (Australian History/Aboriginal Studies) enrolled at the NTU. Sue did her MA at University of Arizona with Rob Williams whereshe studied Federal Indian Law & International Indigenous Human Rights Law - She has an interest in comparative issues in relation to the treaty dialogue 'The Challenge for Australia' |
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| Ribnga Green |
TREATY ADVANCING RECONCILIATION JUNE 26-28 MURDOCH UNIVERSITY