Category Archives: Consultants

Kim McCaul

Email: kcmccaul@culturematters.com.au

M: 0437 063 336

Website – www.culturematters.com.au

Experience:

  • compensation matters
  • connection reports and reviews of connection reports (in NSW, NT, QLD, SA, VIC, WA) both for contested hearings and consent determination processes
  • intangible heritage documentation
  • PBC membership reviews; professional development training for rep body staff (mediation, cross cultural communication, ethnographic analysis)

Dr Michael Lucas

Dr Michael Lucas
Website – www.empius.com.au
   Phone: 0484 957 535
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Email: Michaellucas@empius.com.au

M: 0484 957 535

Website – www.empius.com.au

Areas of interest:

  • Cultural heritage
  • Native title claims
  • Dispute resolution
  • Data management and analytics
  • Agreement-making
  • GIS and spatial mapping
  • Indigenous business and governance advising

Experience:

  • PBC management and governance reform; cultural heritage and agreement-making (QLD & NT), traditional knowledge commercialisation projects, and data analysis.

Daisy Goodwin

Daisy Goodwin
   Phone: 0435 575 941
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Email: daisygoodwin@outlook.com

M: 0435 575 941

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/daisygoodwin

About:

Daisy Goodwin, BA, MA, is a cultural and environmental anthropologist with over eight years of experience working across regional Western Australia supporting Aboriginal-led land and sea initiatives and advocating for First Nations interests across government and industry.

Core Services:

  • Project management
  • Strategic planning
  • Monitoring and evaluation
  • Policy and advocacy
  • Capacity building and facilitation
  • Community engagement
  • Grant and report writing
  • Internal policy and operations

Focus Areas:

  • Economic development and land use planning
  • Agreement making
  • Land and sea projects (bush foods, carbon farming, clean energy, regenerative agriculture)
  • Data sovereignty
  • Governance capacity building

Craig Elliott

Craig Elliott
   Phone: 0408 891 140
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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).

Dr Kim de Rijke

Dr Kim de Rijke
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, University of Queensland.
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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.