CNTA Consultants Register

Introduction:.

CNTA is endeavouring to support consultants, as well as those wishing to hire them, by developing a database of available consultants including listing their areas of expertise.

This is a beginning for a resource service which CNTA hopes will expand in time as more consultants see the value in it, and more external parties use it.

Thanks to those who have contributed to this initial database.

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Emily Sexton
Emily Sexton
Website – www.pbclink.com.au
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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
Dr James Rose

Email: jrose@relational.net.au

W: www.relational.net.au

ABN: 61 748 524 226

PhD, BA(Hons) Social Anthropology; Director and Senior Consultation 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-reference 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.
Dr Pamela McGrath
Dr Pamela McGrath
   Phone: 0439 958 646
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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.
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

Focus areas:

Governance, strategy, economic development, conservation

Daisy Goodwin is a cultural and environmental anthropologist who has spent the last eight years working across regional Western Australia supporting Aboriginal-led land and sea initiatives and advocating for First Nations interests across government and industry.

Her work has largely focused on supporting Aboriginal leadership in carbon farming, bushfoods and clean energy and promoting First Nations data sovereignty.

Craig Elliott
Craig Elliott
   Phone: 0408891140
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Email: elliott.craig64@gmail.com

M: 0408891140

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.

Dr Shaun Canning
Dr Shaun Canning
Australian Cultural Heritage Management.
Shaun Canning is the primary contact.
Website – www.achm.com.au
   Phone: 0400 204 536
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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

Sean Calderwood (Calderwood the Consultant)
Sean Calderwood (Calderwood the Consultant)
   Phone: 0439971169
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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.

Dr Stephen Bennetts
Dr Stephen Bennetts
   Phone: 0404 674 261
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Email: Stephen.Bennetts@hotmail.com

Mobile: 0404 674 261

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