Participation of Indigenous Peoples in Natural Resource Development in Australia
Article from: OGEL 5 (2011), in Indigenous People and Resources Development
Abstract
Australia was very slow to recognise the rights of Indigenous peoples over their natural resources. However, after more than 200 years of European settlement, the power of Indigenous peoples in Australia may have reached the tipping point, the point where the balance on the scale finally shifts. Australian natural resource developers must now embrace a new era of development in which sustainable development is the overriding theme and in which Indigenous peoples play a special role.