Purpose Before Partnership: What Corporate Leaders Are Asked on Reconciliation

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Barbara Sheehy, Director of Indigenous Affairs and reconciliation practitioner, sets out how she works with proponents running large-scale infrastructure, mining and resources programmes in Australia on engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, from procurement and spend to intellectual property and agreement making. Part 1 of 2. Barbara’s work began at the Aboriginal Legal Service in Redfern and now runs across proponents and the senior people who make the decisions on reconciliation. She took part in the Women Transforming Leadership Programme at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, on an executive scholarship through Chief Executive Women and the Aurora Education Foundation. In this episode: The 1992 Mabo decision, which overturned terra nullius and recognised native title How she breaks Article 31 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) down into engagement processes, procurement and spend Dr Terri Janke’s True Tracks and intellectual property and agreement making in reciprocal, rights-based partnerships The question she puts to senior leadership about their real purpose Part 2 turns to how Australia’s Reconciliation Action Plans compare with Canada’s Partnership Accreditation in Indigenous Relations, and the signals an outsider can look for in an organisation’s reconciliation work.

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