The Repeat Offenders Database (ROD), which has been collated by the New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, offer a unique opportunity to analyse data quality issues for an important source of administrative data for Indigenous people. This seminar provides several independent estimates of the population of Indigenous offenders by estimating the number of people with unknown Indigenous status who are likely to be identified as Indigenous in other circumstances.

Sustainable wildlife enterprises in remote Indigenous communities are an important source of economic development and employment whilst providing people with opportunities to continue their close connection with country and maintain customary wildlife harvesting practices. Critical to the success of wildlife enterprises is recognition of the importance of both Indigenous ecological knowledge and western science in their design and implementation.

In recent years there has been an increasing recognition of the limits of GDP as a measure of 'progress' and a growing emphasis on notions of wellbeing, satisfaction, or quality of life. A number of alternative measures of national progress have emerged both in Australia and overseas, with some of the better known including the 'Australian Unity Wellbeing Index', the 'Genuine Progress Indicator' and the 'Happy Planet Index'. In common with these measures, economist Amartya Sen has rejected the notion that development can be measured purely by changes in personal income or GDP.

This seminar reports on the development of Indigenous ranger capacity to monitor and document their land management activities and guide management strategies, drawing on a case study with the Manwurrk Rangers and feral animal control in western Arnhem Land.

This paper discusses the use of harvest studies to explore the nature of Indigenous community economies in remote Indigenous Australia. In particular, it looks at the potential for harvest studies to better inform development strategies for culturally appropriate and sustainable economies in these communities. Since the 1980s, alternative models of remote Indigenous economies have emerged in Australia and the North American Arctic. These models are generally made up of three sectors: the customary, the state, and the market.

This seminar will reflect on some results of the inaugural Shire elections held in the Northern Territory in October 2008. It will observe that, in a number of large multi-member wards in various Shires, those elected to second and subsequent positions often:

• came from the same locations as those elected first, and
• had quite low primary votes.

Conversely, some candidates from other locations who had quite high primary votes did not go on to be elected to second and subsequent positions.

Benefit sharing is a technical term, which was popularised by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. The CBD was the first international treaty to recognise that the conservation of biodiversity is a "common concern of humankind".

This seminar will provide a historical overview of the the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UN DRIP); explain its most contentious aspects and its legal and political significance for Indigenous Australia. The seminar is based on a paper published by Megan Davis in the Melbourne Journal of International Law on the UN DRIP.

Jack Green and Jack Hogan (TBC), Senior Garawa and Waanyi traditional owners