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TIME DAY 1

Friday 24 October 20149.30 am – 10.30 am ~ ARRIVAL AND MORNING TEA ~

10.30 am – 12.00 pm ~ Opening Formalities ~

Introduction to Summit Facilitator:Mr Murandoo Yanner

Djiru People~ Welcome to Country and Cultural Performances~

NQLC Chair and CEO~ Formal Opening ~

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Keynote Speakers:

Mr Mick Gooda, Social Justice CommissionerHuman Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission

~ Native Title Report 2013/14____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Mr Sean Sexton-Moss, Senior Advisor, Native Title Funding and Management

Land Branch Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet

~ Future of NTRBs and current funding arrangements ~

12.00 pm – 1.00 pm LUNCH

North Queensland Land Council NTRB Aboriginal Corporation

2014 Land Summit and Annual General Meeting

Friday 24 – Sunday 26 October 2014

Supporting the best native title outcomes for traditional owners in North Queensland





DAY 1 – Cont’d…

1.00 pm – 3.00 pm

RECOGNISE – Connection to Country

Research, Expert Witnesses, Evidence and Legal Privilege

NQLC Anthropological Research Policy and ProceduresPresenter: Di O’Rorke, Co-ordinating Anthropologist, NQLC

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Expert Witnesses : Anthropological EvidencePresenter: Dr David Martin, Anthropos

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Legal Privilege and EvidencePresenter: Dan O’Gorman, SC

3.00 pm – 3.15 PM AFTERNOON TEA

3.15 pm – 5.00 pm

(separate marquees and facilitators)

SHARE - Sharing Knowledge and Experience

Women’s Native Title BusinessElders: Rose Colless, Nola Joseph TBA

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Men’s Native Title BusinessElders: Claude Beeron, Bill Morganson and Alf Neal






4.00 pm Guided Tours – Djiru People

6.00 pm – 8.00 pm BARBEQUE~ various Indigenous entertainment ~





TIME DAY 2

Saturday 25 October 20147.00 am – 8.30 am BREAKFAST

9.00 am – 9.45 am Keynote Speakers:

Mr Andrew CrippsMinister for Natural Resources and Mines

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Hon Glen ElmesMinister for ATSIMA and Member for Noosa

9.45 am – 11.00 am

DEVELOP – Developing Business Opportunities

Indigenous Business Australia (IBA)Presenter: Mr Chris Fry, CEO

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NQLC Business Support Service ProposalPresenter: Mr Ian Kuch, CEO

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Lend LeasePresenter: Ms Cath Brockenborough

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Rio TintoPresenter: Ms Jean Fenton, Aboriginal Relations Specialist

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Pricewaterhouse Coopers – Indigenous Consulting ProgramPresenter: Ms Jodie Sizer, Principal






11.00 – 11.15 am MORNING TEA

Speaker: Mr David Kempton

Assistant Minister for DATSIMA

11.15 am – 12.15 pm MANAGE – Native Title Rights over the Sea

Land and Sea Rights Indigenous Management Programs – The NLC experiencePresenter: Mr Joe Morrison, CEO, Northern Land Council

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Co-operative Management in National ParksPresenters: Mr Bruce Rampton, Team Leader – Partnerships Team, Partnerships Branch

Queensland Parks & Wildlife Service and Kai Yeung, Manager of the Partnerships Team _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Indigenous Rangers Program – Girringun Rangers ProgramPresenter: Ms Whitney Rassip

12.15 pm – 1.15 pm PROTECT - Native Title Sea Rights and Sea Country ManagementPresenter: Mr David Saylor, Senior Legal Officer, NQLC

Sea Focus GroupPresenter: Mr Phil Rist

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Native Title Sea ClaimsPresenters: Mr Wayne See Kee, CEO, Torres Strait Regional Authority and Mr Joseph Elu,

Chairperson, Torres Strait Regional Authority

1.15 pm – 2.15 pm LUNCH






2.15 pm – 3.00 pm First Indigenous CapitalPresenter: Mr Noel Bridge

3.00 pm AFTERNOON TEA

3.00 pm onwards NQLC Annual General MeetingNQLC members only

Please note: a separate agenda for the AGM will be distributed at this time.

6.30 pm SUMMIT KUP MURRI~ Entertainment by David Dahwurr Hudson ~





TIME DAY 3

Sunday 26 October 20147.00 am – 8.30 am BREAKFAST

8.30 am – 12.00 pm

CONSIDER - Consider National Assembly of First NationsPresenters: Mr Tony McAvoy, Mr Sam Backo, Mr Terry O’Shane and Mr Mick Gooda__________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Progressing Regional Representative StrategyPresenter: Mr Mick Gooda

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Summary of OutcomesMr Murandoo Yanner, Facilitator

12.30 pm – 1.30 pm LUNCH

The Board, CEO, Management and Staff of the North Queensland Land Council thank you for

your attendance and participation at this year’s Summit and AGM and we look forward to seeing

you all again in 2015.

Murandoo Yanner -

Mr Mick Gooda, Social Justice Commissioner, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission – A

descendent of the Gangulu people of central Queensland, Mick took up the position of Aboriginal and Torres Strait

Islander Social Justice Commissioner in February 2010. Mick has been actively involved in advocacy in Indigenous

affairs throughout Australia and has delivered strategic and sustainable results in remote, rural and urban

environments.

For over five years, Mick was the Chief Executive Officer of the Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health (CRCAH).

Mick has played a leadership role in a range of other areas, including as Acting Chief Executive Officer of the Aboriginal and

Torres Strait Islander Commission and Senior Consultant to the Aboriginal Legal Service (WA).

Mick is currently a Board Member of the Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health Queensland and is the Australian

representative on the International Indigenous Council, which focuses on healing and addictions. He is also the co-chair of the

Close the Gap Campaign for Indigenous Health Equality.




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Dr David Martin – Director of Anthropos and a Senior Anthropologist based in Canberra. David has extensive

field-based experience with Aboriginal groups in rural and remote areas, including eight years in community

development. He has also worked at senior management level with Government, and provided high level advice to

Aboriginal organisations, Government agencies and the private sector on such matters as developing effective

Aboriginal organisational structures, Native Title and Land Rights and addressing alcohol issues. Dr Martin has

published on a range of Native Title issues, including a m,ajor co-authored book on Prescribed Body Corporates

(PBCs). He has also published on issues such as accountability, corporate governance and developing effective

organisational structures for service delivery bodies which take account of Aboriginal political and economic values.

He has particular expertise in working with Aboriginal groups to develop effective corporate structures.

Mr Dan O’Gorman, Barrister - Senior Counsel with a broad practice covering a wide range of advisory, trial

and appeal work in all superior courts and in various tribunals. Dan was admitted as a Barrister in NSW in 1985,

Queensland in 1986, and has been at the private Bar, based in Brisbane, since 1988. Dan holds a Bachelor of Law

and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Queensland.

Dan’s main areas of practice are in Administrative, Human Rights & Equal Opportunities, Native Title, and Criminal law as well

as acting in defamation & professional disciplinary matters. Dan has been a member of numerous legal and social justice

committees and is currently a member of the Indigenous Legal Issues Committee of the Law Council of Australia as well as being

Honorary Consul-General of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, Queensland.




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In 2010, Andrew became the Shadow Minister for North Queensland, Reef Protection, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Economic

Development and Shadow Minister for Public Works. In 2011, Andrew was appointed Shadow Minister for Agriculture, Food and

Regional Queensland. Andrew was again elected to represent Hinchinbrook in 2012 upon which he was appointed Minister for

Natural Resources and Mines in the new LNP Government. Andrew is currently a member of the Australasian Study of Parliament

Group, Australians for Constitutional Monarchy, the Society of St Andrew of Scotland and the Sir Samuel Griffith Society. Andrew

is active in the local community across the Hinchinbrook electorate including the Innisfail Caledonian Society, Rotary Club of

Herbert River, Noorla Bowls Club, Northern Beaches Festival Committee and is Patrol of the Herbert River Crushers Rugby

League Football Club. Andrew strongly supports many community organisations and sporting clubs in his electorate.

Andrew Cripps, MP, Minister for Natural Resources and Mines and Member for Hinchinbrook –

Born and raised in Tully Andrew was elected to the Queensland Parliament in 2006, at the age of 25 – the youngest

member of the Queensland Parliament at the time. Following the formation of the new Liberal National Party

(LNP), Andrew was appointed as Shadow Minister for Natural Resources and Water in 2008. He was then re-

elected as the LNP Member for Hinchinbrook and appointed as Shadow Minister for Disability Services and

Multicultural Affairs in 2009.

David Kempton, MP, Assistant Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs and

Member for Cook – Prior to his election to the Queensland Parliament in 2012, David operated a law practice

in Cooktown specialising in pastoral lease tenure, native title, vegetation management, water and land

management issues. He was involved in the northern cattle industry including as a past part owner in Strathburn

Station.David’s interests include bringing infrastructure, business and services to the Cook electorate and providing economic opportunity

in Indigenous communities through land leases and youth training.

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This saw him work and live in regional, urban and country towns around Australia. Chris has a longstanding interest and

involvement in Indigenous affairs. He was Chair of the Indigenous Land Corporation’s Mossman Gorge Development Steering

Committee and an inaugural board member of the Indigenous Tourism Leadership Group. He has also completed a secondment

with the Miriuwung Gajerrong Corporation in Kununurra. Chris holds a Bachelor of Agricultural Economics from the University of

New England and a Masters of Applied Finance from Charles Sturt University, is a graduate of the Australian Rural Leadership

Program, and is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He is a fellow of the Australian Institute of Banking

and Finance and the Australian Rural Leadership Foundation. As CEO of IBA, Chris is responsible for managing IBA’s day-to-day

administration in line with policies determined by the Board. He is assisted by an experienced executive team, with which he

works to ensure IBA meets its corporate objectives.

Chris Fry, Chief Executive Officer, Indigenous Business Australia - Chris joined IBA in February 2011 after

an extensive history with the National Australia Bank, working in various roles over 25 years including National

Manager of Agribusiness Wealth Solutions; National Manager of Corporate Super; Regional Agribusiness Manager;

Business Manager; and Branch Manager.

Ms Jodie Sizer – Principal, PwC’s Indigenous Consulting - Jodie is a Djap Wurrung/Gunditjmara woman,

and part of the Framlingham Community of South West Victoria. Jodie was previously the Principal Consultant

and Director of Ingenuity Australia, a consulting group that provides leadership, development and project

management skills to Indigenous communities. Jodie was named as Victorian Aboriginal Young Achiever in 2000,

when she was working as an auditor at a big four accounting firm and has maintained a prominent role in the

Indigenous space and across broader society.

Jodie has also worked in Indigenous organisations and government. She was an ATSIC Regional Councillor, a finalist in the Telstra

Business Woman of the Year award, listed in the Australian Women’s Who’s Who publication, inducted on the Victorian Women’s

Honour roll, recipient of the Prime Ministers Centenary medal and listed as one of the Australian Financial Review’s 100 Women

of Influence.




Joe Morrison, Chief Executive Officer, Northern Land Council - Mr Morrison’s family connections are in

the Katherine region and surrounds. He also has family links to the Torres Strait Islands. His working career reflects a

strong cultural lean toward traditional land ownership and innovation. After completing high school in Katherine,

Mr Morrison undertook higher education at the University of Sydney where he completed a Bachelor of Land

Management.

Since 2003, Mr Morrison has worked for the North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance (NAILSMA),

latterly as its CEO. Prior to NAILSMA, Mr Morrison worked as the Indigenous Land Management Facilitator (1998-2003) with the

NT Government in partnership with the NLC, helping to establish local land and sea management capacities, which led to the

formation of Indigenous ranger groups. For the past decade, Mr Morrison has been advising Federal, State and Territory

governments about Indigenous cultural and natural resource management. He has been a member of the Federal Government’s

Indigenous Advisory Committee to the Environment Protection & Biodiversity Conservation Act for many years. He said he is

most looking forward to “heading bush to meet with our people” when he begins his new role. Mr Morrison commences his

term as CEO of the NLC in February 2014.

Bruce Rampton, Team Leader, Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service – Has a background in education

upon which he has built a strong capacity in community engagement and community education both within and

outside of government. The key knowledge and skills which factor in this capacity include an understanding and

application of how various sectors in the community prefer to engage, build relationships and to communicate.

This capacity is transferred to a range of projects and programs including community consultation on infrastructure and

institutional governance projects, negotiations across community-based natural resource management and native title agreement,

managing the interface between Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people and government and strategic support to

community-based organisation including local community-based mental health initiative and peer based education programs.

Relationship building between governments and Australia’s traditional owners is based on innovative and community led models

and initiatives. The relationships are further strengthened with a cultural understanding program specifically designed and

delivered for non-Indigenous people wishing to work effectively in a culturally appropriate way with Australia’s Indigenous

peoples.




Joseph became the Chairperson of Indigenous Business Australia (IBA) (formally known as ATSI Commercial Development

Corporation) in 1996 and remained there for 12 years. During his time as the Chairperson of IBA, Joseph influenced

dynamic changes and grew the organisation, at the same time, creating economic and employment opportunities for Torres

Strait Islander and Aboriginal people nationally.

In 2011, Joseph was awarded the Centenary Medal for his achievements and in 2002, Joseph was also presented with an

Honorary Doctorate from the Queensland University of Technology for his lifelong work in developing economic

development for Indigenous people throughout Australia. During 2008, Joseph was made an Officer of the Order of

Australia. In the same year, Joseph was awarded the NAIDOC Lifetime Achievement Award.

Joseph currently remains as the Chairperson of the Seisia Enterprises Pty Limited and Seisia Community Torres Strait Islander

Corporation.

Mr Wayne Seekee – Chief Executive Officer, Torres Strait Regional Authority - Wayne See Kee heads

the TSRA Administration and was appointed to the role of General Manager by the Minister for Indigenous

Affairs in 2005. This position was changed to Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in 2011.Wayne is the first

Indigenous CEO of the TSRA and is a member of the Torres Strait community. His Torres Strait heritage gives

him a unique insight into the many challenges the region confronts and a local understanding on the decisions

made by the Board. He has an in-depth knowledge of the TSRA's strategic objectives, its vision and

partnerships, having worked for the Authority for a number of years prior to his appointment.

Mr Joseph Elu – Chairperson, Torres Strait Regional Authority - During his career, Joseph has been an

influential leader in Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal Affairs and Indigenous economic development. Joseph

has been instrumental in assisting Indigenous people throughout Australia develop sustainable economic

enterprises. Over the next term, Joseph will continue to advocate for and encourage Torres Strait and Northern

Peninsula Area communities generate sustainable enterprises to enable a generation of income that is their own.




Noel Bridge, Managing Director, First Acuity – Noel has extensive experience in accounting and

financial services, the mining industry, rural and Indigenous economic development resulting from the

professional work and educational activities he has undertaken over the past 17 years. Noel currently

undertakes various consulting and community projects as the Managing Director of his private company, First

Acuity Management Enterprises based in Perth, Western Australia.

Previously Noel has worked with the Aboriginal Torres Straight Islander Commercial Development Corporation as project

business developer, with Normandy Mining Limited in separate roles as Manager for Indigenous Issues and in project and

business development within Normandy Industrial Minerals Limited. Noel also worked for several years as a business

consultant in the tax and business services division within Nelson Parkhill BDO (Chartered Accountants) and has performed

several other roles within State and Federal Government organisations. Noel is an Indigenous person and is fully aware of

the social, economic and political issues that impact on Indigenous people.

He has a high level of understanding of the cultural sensitivities and the appropriate protocols observed and used when

negotiating and facilitating business with Indigenous people, the Government sector and the private sector including the

mining, telecommunications and financial services industries. Noel has a Bachelor of Business degree majoring in

Accountancy, he has successfully undertaken the Australian Rural Leadership Program, he completed with distinction the

Australian Institute of Company Directors Program and part completed a Masters of Business Administration. Noel has also

undertaken a series of practical short courses in Effective Negotiations Skills, the Evaluation of Mineral Projects and Trainer

Training in Cross Cultural Facilitation and Mediation. Noel is a member of the Telstra Country Wide Advisory Board and has

participated in the WA Communications Advisory Committee for the past 3 years. Noel is an inaugural member of the newly

established Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre, and of the Minerals Council of Australia's Indigenous

Scholarships committee.




David Hudson, Entertainer – David comes from the Ewamian and Western Yalanji People so it is natural that he

makes his home in Cairns in the midst of the beautiful reef and rainforest. David has travelled extensively throughout

Australia and the World, including Europe, Asia, Oceania and the USA as a solo artist and with world renowned dance

troupe “Tjapukai” (which he co-founded) and Greek composer Yanni. He promotes awareness of Aboriginal culture

and tradition wherever he travels.

A diverse career, he is internationally renowned as a musician, artist, entertainer and presenter. His work is considered

“contemporary” yet has a very definite traditional influence. David is inspired by all the natural elements of his environment and

with each work he creates, he wholeheartedly gives a part of himself and his culture. In March this year, David was awarded a

Honorary Doctorate from James Cook University for his outstanding service and distinguished public contribution to the Northern

Queensland community through his promotion of Aboriginal culture and reconciliation through art, music and dance.

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