Presentations CHIE ADACHI AND VERONICA DOBSON community language planning within the context of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians. She has immensely New ways of learning and teaching Arrente - enjoyed working on the development of online curriculum for developing language and culture course online Central and Eastern Arrernte language and culture with elders from Central Australia. The current paper explores ideas and issues around developing curriculum for learning and teaching of an Veronica Dobson is a highly respected elder from Central Indigenous Australian language. As part of a tertiary course Australia. She has extensively worked on the documentation at the newly established Australian Centre for Indigenous and revitalisation of Central and Eastern Arrernte language Knowledges and Education (ACIKE), the Central and Eastern and culture for many years as an educator. She was involved Arrernte language and culture curriculum has been developed. with establishing the orthography of this language. She also This paper presents a story of developing new ways of has extensive ecological knowledge of the land and takes great transmitting the Arrernte knowledge by creating multimode pride and joy in teaching this knowledge to young generations of learning and teaching space and incorporating the oral as well as non-indigenous people. tradition into non-traditional mode of online teaching with the For her significant contribution and services to the community Arrernte people. as a linguist, naturalist and ecologist, Veronica was appointed This paper also addresses the issues of: a Member of Order of Australia in 2011. She is an author of many books on Central and Eastern Arrernte language, land • Approaching and negotiating protocols to protect and and culture, and a figure that many people come across once share the Arrernte knowledge; they start learning about Arrernte. • Engaging with the community to bring benefits and potential opportunities for the participants involved; and MICHAEL ADAMS • Working with the community and language speakers to develop linguistically and culturally appropriate contents Research Methodology: Consulting with for tertiary students. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Males This paper therefore brings a much needed debate looking Researching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health at the future of learning and teaching Indigenous Australian requires the intertwining of ethical concerns with appropriate languages and culture for tertiary students. methods. Research methods and practice should be inclusive to invite full participation. Chie Adachi is a linguist and a lecturer for Bachelor of Indigenous Languages and Linguistics (BILL) programme. Most researchers have collected data on reproductive health In 2011, she was awarded with a PhD in Linguistics at the through telephone interviews or mailed questionnaires. This University of Edinburgh (UK). The three years of her PhD study incorporated the specific cultural understandings and was entirely funded by the Ministry of Education, Japan. needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander males and the Her research interests lie within sociolinguistics, pragmatics, sensitivities of the topic using a different approach. discourse analysis, linguistic politeness, language and gender, and language and culture. In-depth consultation and negotiation with the target communities ensured that they understood the research, After joining BILL in July 2012, her interests now extend were comfortable with the topic of interest and were willing to cover language loss, documentation, revitalisation and to participate. 18 Breaking Barriers in Indigenous Research and Thinking Dr Mick Adams is a descendent of the Yadhiagana people of mechanism. Prior to commencing her doctoral studies Fleur Cape York Peninsula in Queensland having traditional family spent several years practising as a solicitor in Aotearoa New ties with the Grindji people of Central Western Northern Zealand as well as working as in-house legal counsel in the Territory and extended family relationship with the people of United Kingdom. Fleur’s research interests include Indigenous the Torres Straits, Warlpiri (Yuendumu), and East Arnhem Land peoples’ rights, international human rights law, theories of (Gurrumaru) communities. social regulation and critical theories. Mick has been actively involved in addressing issues associated with the health and well-being of Aboriginal and KATHERINE AIGNER Torres Strait Islander males, striving to ensure that men’s health issues are promoted and placed on the national and Overlapping Cultures: How Indigenous international agenda. knowledge transforms us His PhD research examined the prevalence and correlates The world is at crossroads. While governments come up with of sexual dysfunction among Aboriginal and Torres Strait different reactions to the ecological crisis that confronts the Islander males, which includes the area of sexual and planet, local Indigenous movements, through their quest for reproductive health. self-determination, have responded to these ‘modern’ crises Mick won the 2006 Deadlys Award for his Outstanding with ‘old’ cultural knowledge. Indigenous peoples are asserting Achievement in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health. their rights to ecological stewardship and affirming their custodial role in maintaining lands and waters. This integration He was recently awarded the winner of the Queensland of living Indigenous knowledge into the wider ‘modern’ culture University Technology 2010 Chancellor’s Outstanding has transformed our understanding of our environment Alumnus Award and the winner of the Queensland and manifested significant changes in the way in which the University Technology 2010 Faculty of Health Outstanding environment is protected and managed. Alumnus Award. This paper draws on empirical evidence to investigate how the transmission of Indigenous cultural knowledge FLEUR ADCOCK enriches cultural heritage protection and management of sites and country in northern New South Wales and New strategies for influencing state behaviour: southern Queensland. leveraging the United Nations special Katherine will be joined by Ngarakwal and Githabal custodians. procedures to realise Indigenous rights Katherine Aigner’s ethnographic film experience started The adoption of the United Nations (UN) Declaration on when she took a Super8 camera to central Kalimantan the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2007 has shifted the (Borneo) in 1991 to record ancestral rituals of Dyak tribes. In attention of Indigenous rights scholars from norm elaboration 2001 she travelled on a cultural tour of England, Ireland and to norm implementation. The aim of this paper is to identify Wales with Aboriginal activist Isabell Coe. She has worked strategies for leveraging the UN Human Rights Council’s with Indigenous knowledge holders and custodians around special procedures mechanism to realise Indigenous rights Australia and overseas and made educational documentaries norms. Its findings are based on case studies regarding the on preserving cultural heritage, including the award-winning special procedures’ influence in Aotearoa New Zealand Australian Atomic Confessions (2005). Collaborating on various (Aotearoa) and the Republic of Guatemala (Guatemala). projects, she worked as an assistant curator at the National The research included 18 semi-structured interviews with Museum of Australia and is currently an associate curator special procedures experts, UN bureaucrats, government at the Ethnological Museum of the Vatican Museums. As a officials, Indigenous peoples and Indigenous rights advocates PhD student at ANU’s National Centre for Indigenous Studies, conducted in Aotearoa, Guatemala and the Republic of her research focuses on the late north coast Bundjalung Panama between 2010 and 2011. The paper departs from the filmmaker, custodian, activist and knowledge holder, existing international law corpus by drawing on the rich body Lorraine Mafi-Williams (1940-2001). of regulatory literature, particularly the theoretical work of John Braithwaite and Peter Drahos (2000), to understand the regulatory potential of this non-coercive and resource-poor human rights mechanism. It argues that, by harnessing dialogic ‘webs of influence’, comparatively weak actors like the special procedures can influence the Indigenous rights behaviour of powerful actors, such as states. Fleur Adcock (Ngāti Mutunga and English) is a PhD scholar with the National Centre for Indigenous Studies at the Australian National University. Her research explores how the international human rights system regulates state behaviour towards Indigenous peoples, with a focus on the influence of the United Nations Human Rights Council’s special procedures AIATSIS National Indigenous Studies Conference | 2014 19 JON ALTMAN However the biggest gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Indigenous Australians is Thinking Indigenous economy: A survey from the knowledge gap. Australia cannot close this gap until assimilation (1963) to neoliberal normalisation non-Indigenous Australians increase their understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and develop (2013) and beyond the skills to become culturally competent at a personal and In 1963 as AIATSIS was formed assimilation was the dominant professional level. mode of thinking about Indigenous economic development, Will Indigenising our universities help us to achieve this? influenced in part