Current and recent research projects undertaken by staff in the Indigenous Nation Building and Governance (INBG) Research Hub
Current Research
Gunditjmara Nation Building Economic Strategy
Gunditj Mirring Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation (GMTOAC) has a vision to achieve sustainable economic development to enable it to support the Gunditjmara People’s continuing connection to Gunditjmara Country and to fulfil its obligations to Country as Traditional Owners. The Hub is engaging with the GMTOAC to support its work to build on existing elements providing a platform for economic planning for the next five years.
AIATSIS Indigenous Governing Authority – Creating Jurisdictional Space for the Implementation of Indigenous Law.
This project explored ‘statutory authorities’ as a possible response to First Nations’ need for pluralist governing structures through which they can exercise land jurisdiction, fulfil responsibilities to Country and manage relationships with settler-colonial governments. The final report will be available from the AIATSIS website in the coming months.
Development of an Indigenous Engagement Strategy for fishing interests with a focus on Commonwealth Fisheries
Through this project a strategy was developed to guide the effective engagement between Indigenous fishing interests and management agencies responsible for Commonwealth fisheries, which has applicability to appropriate state and local level processes. The strategy is centred on the principles representation and consultation, 2-way capacity building and collaboration and co-management.
Translating Ngarrindjeri Yannarumi into water resource risk assessments
Working with key partners this project developed and successfully trialed a methodology that supports the translation of Ngarrindjeri Yannarumi assessments into water resource risk assessments articulating points of connection between the Ngarrindjeri Yannarumi assessment process and the water risk assessment process. Learn more ...
Prerequisite conditions for Indigenous nation self-government
Collaborating with two Aboriginal nations - the Gugu Badhun Nation in what is now Queensland and the Nyungar Nation in what is now Western Australia - that do not have existing governing structures and mechanisms this projects investigates an element of Indigenous nation building (INB) that has not been explored in Australia or elsewhere. Learn more ...
Heritage and Reconciliation
This project aims to re-conceptualise heritage from a standpoint of reconciliation. In doing so, it will generate new understandings about how heritage and its management can contribute to reconciliation processes. The project combines Aboriginal, Maori and Western intellectual traditions in order to advance theoretical understandings of heritage and to examine its reconstructive power. Learn more ...
Aboriginal Affairs NSW OCHRE Literature Review: Practice Principles
OCHRE (Opportunity, Choice, Healing, Responsibility, Empowerment) is the NSW Government's community-focussed plan to transform the working relationships between government and Aboriginal people. Jumbunna was engaged by AANSW to evaluate whether the drafted OCHRE Practice Principles reflect Aboriginal standpoints, critiques and philosophies, along with relevant best practice policy developments, as revealed through relevant academic and grey literature.
Restoring Dignity: Networked Knowledge for Repatriation Communities
The repatration of Ancestral Remains is of great significance for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and many other Indigenous peoples worldwide. An extraodinary Indigenous achievement, repatration has been the single most important agent of change in the relationship between Indigenous peoples, museums and the academy over the past 40 years. This project built on the foundational work of the 2014 - 2017 ARC Linkage project Return, Reconcile, Renew in developing a national and international resource for repatriation research and practice, developing an Indigenous data governance framework to ensure ethical data management, analysis, sustainability and intergenerational transfer. Learn more ...