The 2026 Centre for Native Title Annual Conference
Venue: Brisbane (Venue to be confirmed)
5-6th February 2026 (Date to be confirmed)
The 2026 Centre for Native Title Annual Conference
Venue: Brisbane (Venue to be confirmed)
5-6th February 2026 (Date to be confirmed)
CNTA will hold a workshop in Brisbane on 13-14 th November 2025. Further details come.
Rob Blowes SC has kindly made available to a wider audience the materials he compiled for a workshop of lawyers and anthropologists at First Nations Legal and Research Services Melbourne on June 10th 2025.
Disclaimer Please note: this is NOT legal advice. It does not purport to be a comprehensive set of materials on the matter.
The material was prepared for a particular purpose rather than general publication.
CNTA held a workshop hosted by First Nations Legal and Research Services (FNLRS) in Melbourne on 15-16th May 2025.
The purpose of the workshop was principally to understand the different roles of lawyers and anthropologists when working for native title outcomes in complex operating environments. These involved speakers outlining and -in the case of genealogies demonstrating – key methodologies in legal and anthropological practice.
Video recordings of the 10 presentations are now available on the CNTA website. Tom Keely’s paper has been circulated via the CNTA Email List.
Read Full Content of the Workshop
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.