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Indigenous knowledge or
climate change adaptation
Climate change poses a serious risk to everyone, including us as Aboriginal people. But to date
not enough has been done to understand the impact o climate change on us and how we might
adapt to climate change in order to preserve our culture, heritage and traditional way o lie.As we look or inspiration to tackle the climate challenge we discover it needs to originate rom
Indigenous people or Indigenous people. As our Elders state, looking back, moving orward,
and we do this through integrating Indigenous and Western knowledge.
National workshop
1415 November 2012
Echuca, Victoria
This workshop will examine how Indigenous knowledge can contribute to improved
climate change adaptation or Indigenous communities and the Australian
community in general, through ongoing protection o Cultural Heritage, promotion o
healthy ecosystems and community empowerment.
The workshop will bring together Indigenous leaders rom around the country with
researchers and international experts to share knowledge and experience and
to discuss where we are now, and what still needs to be done to maximise the
potential use o Indigenous knowledge or climate change adaptation.
Topics covered include:
Community archives o Indigenous knowledge
Indigenous knowledge ownership and confdentiality
Inormation & products derived rom Indigenous knowledge to support
adaptation decisions
Closing generational rits through knowledge exchange methods
Research developed, investigated, owned and controlled by Indigenous people
or Indigenous people
Gaka Yawell Ngulla YenbenaYorta Yorta Woka
Come Walk With Us OnYorta Yorta Country
Supported by:
1415 November 2012
Port o Echuca
Motel & Conerence Centre
Echuca, Victoria
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Tuesday 13 November 2012
4:008:30 Registration at the Port o Echuca Motel
7:008:30 Inormal welcome reception at the Port o Echuca Motel
Day 1: Wednesday 14 November 2012
7:008:45 Breakast (or Port o Echuca guests)
8:309:00 Registration
Tea & coee on arrival
9:0010:30 Session 1: Welcome and scene-setting
Chair: Lee Joachim
Rapporteur: Zac Bischo-Mattson
Welcome to Country
Colin Walker
Opening address
Denise Morgan-Bulled & Rochelle Patten
Starting the conversation
Kate Auty (Victorian Commissioner or Environmental Sustainability)
Aims and objectives o the workshop
Lee Joachim and Dave Griggs
10:3011:00 Morning Tea
11:0012:30 Session 2: Indigenous knowledge or climate change adaptation
Overview o how Indigenous knowledge can contribute to improved climate change
adaptation or Indigenous communities and the Australian community in general
Chair: Tom Day [TBC]
Rapporteur: Carolina Adler
11:0011:15 What is climate change and adaptation
Dave Griggs (Monash University) & Rowan Foley (Aboriginal Carbon Fund)
11:1511:25 Climate change adaptation and Indigenous people in Samoa
Leota Pepe Pai (Sili Community, Samoa)
11:2511:40 National Cultural Flows Research Project
Alistair Webster (National Native Title Council)
11:4012:30 Group discussion
12:301:30 Lunch
1:303:00 Session 3: Building a community archive o Indigenous knowledge
What methods and tools can Indigenous communities use to collect traditional
knowledge as a basis or climate change adaptation?
Chair: Rowan Foley
Rapporteur: Jan Muir
1:301:40 I-Tracker Program
Erica McCreedy (North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance Ltd)
1:401:50 NT Indigenous Ecological Knowledge Program
Nikki Brannigan (Central Land Council)1:502:00 Girringun cultural heritage mapping, environmental planning & GIS
Phil Rist (Girringun Aboriginal Corporation)
2:003:00 Group discussion
Workshop Program
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3:003:15 Aternoon Tea
3:153:45 Bus to the Dharnya Centre in Barmah to be joined by the Yorta Yorta community
3:455:00 Session 4: Research by Indigenous people or Indigenous people
How can Indigenous people develop their own research agenda by initiating, developing,
undertaking, controlling and owning the research?
Chair: Sonia Cooper
Rapporteur: Zac Bischo-Mattson
3:453:55 Learning or Indigenous knowledge in the Barmah-Millewa
Jackie Walker and Ebony Joachim (YYNAC)
3:554:05 A geographical inormation system (GIS) or the Yorta Yorta
Pan Wang (Monash University)
3:554:05 Turtle tracking in the Barmah-Millewa
Leah Beesley and Katie Howard (Victorian Department o Sustainability and Environment)
4:055:00 Group discussion
5:006:00 Guided walk in the Barmah Forest around the Dharnya Centre
6:008:30 Workshop dinner & cultural presentation Dharnya Centre
Day 2: Thursday, 15 November 2012
7:008:45 Breakast (or Port o Echuca guests)
Checkout or Port o Echuca guests leaving at the end o the workshop
9:0010:30 Session 5: Ensuring Indigenous knowledge ownership and confdentiality
What levels and types o protection need to be instituted to allow or appropriate
Indigenous knowledge to be shared with and beneft the wider community?
Chair: Kate Auty
Rapporteur: Louise Kyle
Anne Sheehan
Mark Harris
Group discussion
10:3011:00 Morning Tea
11:0012:30 Session 6: Indigenous natural resource management
How can Indigenous communities participate in managing natural resources on their
traditional lands?
Chair: Amanda Lynch
Rapporteur: Eleanor Sobey
11:0011:20 Hawaii Restoration Conservation Initiative & Kohala Watershed Partnership
Chris Heider (Watershed Proessionals Network, USA), Matt Hamabata (Kohala Center, Hawaii,
USA) and Kekuhi Kealiikanakaoleohaililani (Edith Kanakaole Foundation & University o Hawaii,
USA)
11:2011:30 Kowanyama NRM programs
Viv Sinnamon (Kowanyama Lands Ofce)
11:3011:40 Gunditj Mirring work on Mt Eccles/Lake Condah
Tom Day (Gunditj Mirring)
11:4012:30 Group discussion12:301:30 Lunch
Day 1: Wednesday 14 November 2012 Continued.
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1:303:00 Session 7: Aboriginal participation in adaptation-related decision making
How can Indigenous communities participate in larger-scale adaptation and natural
resource management decision and policy processes aecting their communities and
traditional lands?
Chair: Rueben Berg
Rapporteur: Sonia Cooper & Zac Bischo-Mattson1:301:55 Stakeholder viewpoints o Indigenous participation in decision making in the MDB
Carolina Adler (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) and Amanda Lynch (Brown University, USA)
1:552:15 How to engage with government and use Indigenous knowledge or better policy
outcomes
Ximena Traa-Valarezo (World Bank)
2:152:30 Indigenous engagement at the Department o Climate Change and Energy Efciency
Jeremy Dore (DCCEE)
2:303:00 Group discussion
3:003:30 Aternoon Tea
3:304:30 Session 8: Closing PlenaryChair: Dave Griggs
Rapporteurs: Carolina Adler & Zac Bischo-Mattson
3:304:00 Panel discussion:
How can we strengthen the contribution o Indigenous knowledge to improved climate change
adaptation or Indigenous communities and the Australian community in general?
4:004:20 Workshop recommendations & next steps
4:204:30 Closing
4:30 Close
5:00 Bus rom Echuca to Melbourne via Melbourne Airport
Day 2: Thursday, 15 November 2012 Continued.