Centre for Native Title Anthropology (CNTA)
From the end of July 2025 CNTA will move from the School of Archaeology and Anthropology in the College of Arts and Social Sciences at ANU.
From 2025-2028 CNTA will be housed in the School of Social Science, University of Queensland. CNTA, funded by the Australian Attorney General’s Department, will continue to support professional development services to the community of native title anthropologists and related researchers.
Information about the new Directors, the Research Fellow, with their contact details will be available in due course.
Our sector encompasses primarily anthropologists employed by Native Title Representative Bodies (NTRBs) and Native Title Service Providers (NTSPs), as well as consultant anthropologists working in native title.
As part of its activities, the CNTA will continue to solicit new material and update this web site, which aims to provide a forum for recordings and podcasts of high-quality concerning issues of Native Tile anthropological practice.
The range of CNTA outreach services to the native title anthropology sector includes the following:
Preparation of connection reports in the case of active native title claims
Expert witness roles in native title and related litigation and mediation procedures
Legal language and expectations, differences and overlaps with anthropological analyses and methodologies
Career development, working conditions and safety issues during applied anthropological studies.
Anthropological approaches to native title compensation research in the case of legal procedures regarding ‘compensable acts’
A wide range of cultural heritage issues
Reviews of reports and related materials prepared by anthropologists and historians across a range of native title matters
Post determination management of native title rights including the operation of agreements, membership of native title corporations, and decisions regarding future acts on lands and waters