Collaborating to Build Capability in the Native Title Sector:
A Case Study on Anthropologists
Attached is a case study of workforce issues for anthropologists prepared for the recently held Commonwealth Inter-agency Committee on Native Title in Adelaide.
The paper builds on a survey of our sector run by CNTA in 2023, followed by a small working party of research managers from different organisations held in July 2024. Their involvement made it possible to bring an experiential dimension to the issues, and to ground-proof key issues emerging from the survey data.
CNTA has taken the view that – for various reasons outlined – we need to use our own capacities and agency to review, reform, and sponsor recruitment and retention for the native title anthropological workforce. In terms of remedial actions inside native title organisations, there is a good deal of agency they have to make a positive difference in recruitment and staff retention.