ATNS News

Applications Welcome - PhD Scholarship - 5/08/2010
An Australia Postgraduate Award (Industry) (APAI) scholarship is being offered as part of the Poverty in the Midst of Plenty: Economic Empowerment, Wealth Creation and Institutional Reform for Sustainable Indigenous and Local Communities project.

Applications for are now open for this scholarship which amounts to $27,222 per annum plus a $6,000 contribution per annum from the project’s industry partners, over three years.

The Chief Investigators welcome applications from candidates interested in pursuing a PhD, ideally in a public policy, economics or legal field relating to this project. The candidate would be qualified in social science, economics or law and demonstrate a capacity to conduct research at the doctoral level. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply.

For further information please click here or contact our Project Manager Jessica Cotton on (03) 8344 0823 or by email jcotton@unimelb.edu.au

Traditional Owner Settlement Bill 2010 (Vic) & Explanatory Memorandum - 31/07/2010
The Victorian Government has introduced a Bill which establishes an Act to recognise traditional owner groups based on their traditional and cultural associations to certain land in Victoria, to provide for the making of agreements between the State and traditional owner groups, to recognise and confer rights on traditional owner groups as to access to or ownership or management of certain public land and as to decision making rights and other rights that may be exercised in relation to the use and development of the land or natural resources on the land, to make any amendments that are necessary to other Acts to ensure the agreements are effective, to make any related and consequential amendments to other Acts and for other purposes.
Download the Bill here.
Download the Explanatory Memorandum here.

New ATNS email address - 9/04/2009
Please forward any questions or comments to the ATNS Project team at admin@atns.net.au. Click here for other Project contact information.

Full text of Journal of Energy and Natural Resources Law now available - 25/08/2008
Australia and other parts of the globe are experiencing an unprecedented boom in the resource extraction sector. This special edition of JERL, 'Indigenous and Local Peoples and Resource Development: International Comparisons of Law, Policy and Practice' contains ongoing interdisciplinary research examining the management, participation in and impact of resource extraction on indigenous and local peoples. Click here for further information and access to the full text.

Release of new book: Making Things Come Good: Relations Between Aborigines and Miners at Argyle - 24/11/2008
Kim Doohan's recent publication Making Things Come Good: Relations Between Aborigines and Miners at Argyle describes the story of evolving relationships between the Argyle Diamond Mine and the Aboriginal people whose land has been mined. It shows the two parties making agreements, with quite different understandings and expectations, and describes the ways in which they gradually accommodate one another's point of view. For further information on this title click here.

Submit an Agreement - 25/08/2008
The ATNS Project welcomes suggested additions to the database. Please see the Submit Agreement link. Alternatively, contact the ATNS Team.

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