Webinar: Navigating agreement-making with First Nations communities: Critical perspectives and implementation strategies

Join the Social and Environment Society for their webinar: Navigating agreement-making with First Nations communities: Critical perspectives and implementation strategies.

About this event

This webinar will explore the complexities and opportunities in agreement making with First Nations communities, with a focus on ensuring meaningful implementation that supports community aspirations and long-term outcomes. Drawing on lived experience, the webinar will critically examine how agreements are negotiated, structured, and enacted in practice.

Topics covered will include:

• The evolving landscape of agreement making in Australia, including Native Title and beyond
• Challenges in ensuring agreements reflect genuine partnership and self-determination
• Implementation barriers and enablers: from legal frameworks to community governance
• Case studies and lessons learned from past and current agreements

Anthony Galante, CEO of Robe River Kuruma Aboriginal Corporation and Jamie Lowe, CEO of the National Native Tittle Council (NNTC) and Co-Chair of the Mabo Centre will offer grounded insights into community priorities and the realities of implementation.

This session is essential for policymakers, professionals in the mining industry, community leaders, and anyone involved in or supporting agreement making with First Nations peoples.  

Speaker/s

Anthony Galante

Chief Executive Officer, Robe River Kuruma Aboriginal Corporation

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Anthony Galante has committed over 30 years to social justice and improving outcomes for Indigenous Australians. He is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the Robe River Kuruma Aboriginal Corporation which manages native title rights and interest of over 16,000 square kilometres in Western Australia's Pilbara region. He is leading negotiations with Rio Tinto which are focused on remedy outcomes to address cultural heritage, environmental impacts and harm to people from 52 years of mining.

Anthony holds a Master of Arts (International Relations) from Monash University which focused on ethics in international relations, human rights and the French presence in the South Pacific.

Jamie Lowe

Chief Executive Officer, National Native Title Council

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Jamie Lowe is a proud Gundjitmara Djabwurrung man and CEO of the National Native Title Council (NNTC) and Co-Chair of the Mabo Centre - established to promote Traditional Owner economic and social empowerment through a partnership with the University of Melbourne.
Jamie joined NNTC as Chair in 2017 and became CEO in 2019. Jamie helped negotiate the 2020 Closing the Gap Agreement and advises on its implementation as a Joint Council member of the Coalition of the Peaks. He serves as Indigenous Specialist Representative on the Australian Heritage Council and formerly led the Eastern Maar Aboriginal Corporation, which holds native title in southwestern Victoria.
Internationally, he represents the NNTC at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. His work focuses on fostering economic independence and preserving cultural identity, while championing a national Treaty and supporting Traditional Owners and communities across Australia.