Victorian Treaty Journey: Treaty Authority Bill
If you practice in Native Title this is the start of something big! The Treaty Authority Bill, introduced in the Victorian parliament, will give the new body legal powers to oversee treaty talks and resolve any disputes. Join an expert panel as they discuss the latest issues impacting the sector right now as they take you beyond the news headlines and discuss the potential opportunities and challenges in this evolving area of law. WEB227N02
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Legal Alert: New Treaty Authority Bill
- Understanding the architecture of the Treaty Authority Bill
- The Relationship to the ‘Truth Telling’ report and other items
- The potential opportunities and challenges for both Victoria and other states across Australia
- The potential impact on native title and other forms of statutory recognition
Panellists:
Clare Lawrence, Partner, Ashurst
Tony Kelly, CEO, First Nations Legal and Research Services
David Yarrow, Barrister, Lonsdale Chambers
Karri Walker, Senior Lawyer, The First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria
Presenters
Clare Lawrence
Clare specializes in Indigenous land law and land access. She works nationally, focusing on native title, Indigenous cultural heritage and the State and Territory based land rights schemes. She acts for government, Traditional Owners, and private sector clients in the infrastructure, telecommunications, power and utilities, mining, and oil and gas industries. Her work takes her from remote sites to board rooms, as poor management of Indigenous heritage protection has emerged as a key business risk. Clare continues to cement her status as a market leader in this space by contributing to the reform of key legislation in the field, and spearheading Ashurst's native title thought leadership and seminar programs, which includes Ashurst’s annual publication, Native Title Year in Review.
Tony Kelly
Tony has nearly four decades experience working with First Nations people across the country, including the last 10 years working as a native title lawyer and now CEO of a Native Title Service Provider. Previously Tony worked as Park Ranger at Kakadu and Nitmiluk (Katherine Gorge) National Parks and for two decades in community development and social work, with a focus on disadvantaged young people.In 2015 and 2016 Tony lived in Mount Isa where he, along with his wife Rebecca, cared for his mother-in-law during the final years of her life. Tony and Rebecca’s experiences of this time are the subject of their co-authored memoir, Growing Pineapples in the Outback.
David Yarrow
Prior to coming to the Bar David was a lecturer in the Faculty of Law at Monash University where he taught property law and trusts law. He has also held other academic posts including as an adjunct professor at the Osgoode Hall Law School at York University. David has been a legal advisor for numerous Aboriginal organisations and has also been Principal Policy Officer in the Legal Branch of the Queensland Department of Premier and Cabinet. He has published a great number of academic articles and authored a number of book chapters concerning the area of native title, both in Australia and Canada, and is undertaking his doctoral thesis in this area.
Karri Walker
Karri is a proud Nyiyaparli woman, whose family is from the East Pilbara region of Western Australia, and has grown up living on Wurrundjeri Country. Karri is the Senior Lawyer at the First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria working on the nation’s first Treaty process. Prior to joining the Assembly, Karri worked as a commercial lawyer at Arnold Bloch Leibler. Karri is a member of the Advisory Council for the Indigenous Law and Justice Hub at the University of Melbourne Law School.