Since the commencement of the Commonwealth Native Title Act 1993, the resource industry has come to terms with the need to engage with the Aboriginal communities on whose country they operate. Land use agreements struck within the native title framework have begun delivering benefits for all parties, including a pathway to the heritage approvals necessary for project development. Until recently, it had seemed that this engagement was becoming increasingly sophisticated, forming key element of obtaining a project’s social licence, ongoing consultation being fundamental to this. But it seems even the best can get this wrong. This talk explores what effective consultation looks like in the Aboriginal heritage and native title approvals context and whether too much consultation is ever enough.