Category Archives: Consultants

Email: catherine.wohlan@gmail.com

M: 0488 992 616

Worked in native title and related areas since 1996, including experience working in the private sector for indigenous land councils and as a consultant.
Expertise includes cultural mapping, heritage impact assessment, native title including compensation, and inquiries undertaken under the Aboriginal Land Rights Act, Northern Territory.
Author of multiple reports providing internal expert advice and for filing in the Federal Court.

Email: alli_thatch@yahoo.com.au

M: 0439 030 491

Address: 71 Tanami Drive, Bilingurr (Broome) WA, 6725

Summary of Experience and Skills:

Education:

* Master of Anthropology (Advanced), Australian National University (2017);
* Postgraduate Diploma of Arts (Research), Monash University (2009);
* Bachelor Arts, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (1999).

Experience:

• 20 years’ experience working with Australian First Nations communities and their organisations as well as the government and private sector throughout the Northern Territory, North Queensland, Victoria, and Western Australia.

Skills:

• Native title: anthropology research, report writing, compiling genealogies, community engagement and project management.
• Cultural heritage management: site surveys, cultural values assessments, and report writing.
• Post determination: Prescribed Body Corporate support including policy writing, strategic planning, community consultation, and implementing systems to evaluate and respond to future act notifications.

Website – www.pbclink.com.au

Linkedin – pbclink

Areas of Expertise

Working with boards and operations teams across all aspects of PBC operations, governance, business and strategy.

Experience

• Agreement review and advisory
• Stakeholder management
• Joint venture negotiation
• Governance training
• Strategic planning
• Business development
• Policy development (preferential procurement / preferential employment)
• Cultural governance frameworks
• Cultural heritage management systems
• Funding facilitation including grant opportunities
• Project planning and management

Email: jrose@relational.net.au

W: www.relational.net.au

ABN: 61 748 524 226

PhD, BA(Hons) Social Anthropology; Director and Senior Consultant Social Anthropologist, RMA (Relational Modelling & Analysis)

Areas of Expertise

• Forensic and Expert Social Anthropology (FESA), suitable to a range of statutory and common law legal-administrative applications
• Culturally based Indigenous and customary property rights, including land, sea, and natural resources, data and intellectual property, and child custody
• Cultural heritage preservation, including evidence preservation, moveable and immovable tangible and intangible cultural heritage
• Advanced social mapping and genealogical modelling, including claim group development, ancestor identification, and scaffolding for community conflict resolution
• Advanced geospatial mapping (GIS), including small-to-large scale population modelling & analysis
• Social and kinship network analysis, (SNA, KNA) spatiotemporal kinship network analysis (stKNA)
• Training and mentoring
• Research database design and development, including data governance

Experience

• 22-years’ experience providing forensic and expert social anthropological services to native title claims and negotiations, and cultural preservation processes across Australia, including more than 2,000 remote, regional, and urban area community consultations and lead authorship of more than 150 reports.
• Provision of fact and expert opinion evidence to over 15 native title claims and negotiations under the Commonwealth Native Title Act (1993), in New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia, and the Northern Territory. The largest claims on which I have been engaged as the lead expert include:
• Gomeroi People (NSD37/2019) (111,317 sq km)
• Ngemba, Ngiyampaa, Wangaaypuwan and Wayilwan People (NSD38/2019) (95,044 sq km)
• South Coast People (NSD1331/2017) (16,809 sq km)
• Provision of fact and expert opinion evidence to tangible and intangible cultural heritage processes under various statutory and common law regimes in the Northern Territory, Queensland, and New South Wales, including particularly the Northern Territory Aboriginal Sacred Sites Act (1989)
• Lead development and curation of the largest fully cross-referenced digital genealogy in Australia (the ‘UNIIFIED Genealogy’ documenting more than 85,000 individuals), hosted by New South Wales NTSP NTSCORP
• Design and development of advanced, secure, multi-user research databases for multirole NTSPs, Land Councils, and government agencies, including most notably the New South Wales Office of Aboriginal Affairs.

Email: pammcgrath@bigpond.com

M: 0439 958 646

Canberra based

Areas of Expertise:

• Native title anthropology
• Indigenous cultural heritage management
• WA, Victoria and Qld
• Facilitation and mediation
• Project and program management

Experience:

• 7 years as a consultant anthropologist, providing independent expert advice for both consent and litigated matters.
• 12 years in research management for RNTBCs, government and academia (including AIATSIS, NNTT and ANU).
• 4 years as a RNTBC in-house anthropologist.