Aboriginal Economies in a climate changing world

When the NSW Government passed laws to recognise Aboriginal Land Rights in 1983, they extended on earlier land rights models to, among other objectives, finance profit generating enterprises led by Local Aboriginal Land Councils (LALCs).  Over the last 40 years LALC entrepreneurship, however uneven and limited the success, offers an alternate economic paradigm inflected by indigenous cultural values and communal aspirations. Further, as energy transition accelerates, this systems change creates opportunities for greater inclusion and participation in new economies that mobilises the Aboriginal land estate to ensure survival on country in a climate changing world.

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About the Speaker

Professor Heidi Norman is a leading researcher in the field of Australian Aboriginal political history.  She has published widely on histories of Aboriginal land rights, Aboriginal participation in Rugby League, studies of media representation, the history of Aboriginal working life in cities and political histroy of Aboriginal affairs administration.  Her family are from Gomeroi lands of northwestern NSW.  She is a member of the First Nations Clean Energy Network and the Commonwealth Government's First Nations Clean Energy and Emissions Reduction Advisory Committee where she has contributed to development of the First Nations Clean Energy Strategy.

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