Category Archives: Consultants

Email: elliott.craig64@gmail.com

M: 0408 891 140

Specific areas of expertise and interest:

* Native Title and NT Land Rights claim research and reporting;
* Native Title Compensation claim research;
* Native Title report Peer Review;
* Indigenous applied public health research;
* Indigenous Intestate claims research and advice;
* Social Impact Assessment.

Experience:

• 1992-2006, 2017-2025: Consultant Anthropologist (in Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia)
• 2006–2017: Senior Anthropologist, Native Title Research Coordinator, Central Land Council, Alice Springs, NT.
• Expert Witness in Native Title: De Rose (De Rose Hill); Alyawarr (Alyawarr, Kaytetye, Warumungu and Wakay Native Title Claim
• Expert Witness in Land Rights cases: Alcoota Land Claim; Wakay Alyawarr (Repeat) Land Claim; Cobourg Peninsula Land Claim
• 2014-2019: Guest Lecturer, New York University, Sydney campus (2014-19).
• Consultancy work for: Central Land Council (CLC), Northern Land Council (CLC), Kimberley Land Council (KLC), Yamatji Marlpa Aboriginal Corporation (YMAC), Antakirinja Matu-Yankunytjatjara Aboriginal Corporation (AMYAC), Solicitor for the Northern Territory (SFNT), Danila Dilba Aboriginal Health Corporation (NT).

Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, University of Queensland.

Email: k.derijke@uq.edu.au

Specific areas of expertise and interest:

Native title claim research and reporting, including expert evidence for the Federal Court, peer reviews, Indigenous Land Use Agreements, cultural heritage/cultural values research, social impact assessment.

Experience

Native title claim research, expert evidence in the Federal Court, joint expert conferences, peer review, research addressing membership disputes and overlapping claims, cultural values studies, research in post-determination settings addressing conflicts about rights in land in the context of mining.

Australian Cultural Heritage Management.

Shaun Canning is the primary contact.

Website – www.achm.com.au

• Remote / Regional Work
• Cultural Heritage Management
• Ethnographic Assessments
• Archaeological Assessments
• Impact Assessment
• Cultural Values Assessments
• GIS / Heritage Site Databases
• PBC Advice and Assistance
• Mine Closure
• ILUA Negotiations and Agreement Modernisation

Dr Shaun Canning

Managing Director and Principal Heritage Advisor

Australian Cultural Heritage Management

ADELAIDE | BRISBANE |MELBOURNE | PERTH | SYDNEY

T: 1300 724 913
M: 0400 204 536
E: Shaun.Canning@achm.com.au
W: www.achm.com.au

Email: seancalderwood37@gmail.com

Mobile: 0439971169

Experience:

Sean is available for work in the following fields:

• heritage surveys;
• collection of genealogical information;
• collection of family histories;
• site recording;
• cultural mapping;
• archival research;
• assisting on research trips;
• assisting senior anthropologists in research (I have done this with Lee Sackett, Scott Cane and others); and,

Sean has been the male anthropologist on four successful native title determinations (all in WA), two as the sole anthropologist, and a further two with a female anthropologist.

Email: Stephen.Bennetts@hotmail.com

QUALS

PhD (Anthropology) 2013, University of Western Australia
MA, Applied Linguistics (Regional Languages of Australia and the Pacific), Sydney University, 1993
Fellow Australian Anthropological Society;
Member Anthropological Society of Western Australia
(Detailed professional CV available on request)
I have worked since 1994 in the NT and WA on heritage, ALRA land claim and native title issues for a wide range of organisations including the Central Land Council, Northern Land Council, Ngaanyatjarra Council, Wangka Maya Aboriginal Language Centre, Port Hedland, Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority (Alice Springs and Darwin), YMAC, Pilbara Ports Authority
Former co-editor, Indigenous Law Bulletin, UNSW Indigenous Law Centre (1998-2000)
Co-founder, Remembering the 1946 Pilbara Strike
Extensive experience of research and drafting of expert native title claim connection reports in WA and NT under FCA guidelines
Currently teaching applied anthropology course, University of Queensland
Aboriginal languages: conversational knowledge of Pitjantjatjara