Treaty Resources and Extra Reading

More links and annotations will be added over time. We also welcome suggestions for additions to the resource page. The emphasis is on information freely downloadable from the World Wide Web although some books and other items not available on the web are included. The final outcome from the Centre's Treaty Project was the book Treaty (Federation Press, 2005). It is a short, accessible paperback that deals with the main issues associated with the treaty idea in Australia. More details on the book can be found at the publisher's website here.

Treaty Project Issues Papers

	Issues Paper No 4 - Could a Treaty make a Practical Difference in People's Lives? The Question of Health and Well-being by Sean Brennan
	Issues Paper No 3 - Native Title and the Treaty Debate: What's the Connection? by Sean Brennan
	Issues Paper No 2 - What's Sovereignty Got To Do With It? by Sean Brennan, Brenda Gunn and George Williams
	Issues Paper No 1 - Why 'Treaty' and Why this Project? by Sean Brennan.

Contemporary Calls for a Treaty

	Reconciliation. Australia’s Challenge. Final Report to Parliament by the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation (2000).
	Until the Chains Are Broken. 4th Vincent Lingiari Lecture by Patrick Dodson (1999).
	Beyond the Mourning Gate - Dealing with Unfinished Business. Wentworth Lecture by Patrick Dodson (2000).
	Address to Corroboree 2000. ATSIC Chairman Geoff Clark (2000).

History of Calls for a Treaty

	AIATSIS Treaty Website, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs. (Includes full text versions of important documents eg Yirrkala Bark Petition 1963, National Aboriginal Conference Makarrata documents 1979-1983, Aboriginal Treaty Committee papers 1979-1983, Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs report 200 Years Later… 1983, Barunga Statement 1988, Treaty '88 Campaign).
	ATSIC, Recognition, Rights and Reform, 1995.
	B Atwood and A Markus, The Struggle for Aboriginal Rights. A Documentary History, Allen & Unwin, 1999.
	Stewart Harris, It’s Coming Yet…, The Aboriginal Treaty Committee, 1979.

General Information from Supporters of a Debate about a Treaty

	National Treaty Support Group.
	Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTaR)

Conference Papers, Seminar Series etc

	Limits and Possibilities of a Treaty Process in Australia. (2001) Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs. Seminar Series 1 and Seminar Series 2.
	Negotiating Settlements: Indigenous peoples, settler states and the significance of treaties and agreements. (2002) Institute of Postcolonial Studies, Melbourne. Seminar Series.
	National Treaty Conference, 28-28 August 2002.
	Treaty. Advancing Reconciliation. (2002) Murdoch University. Conference Papers.

Research Projects

Agreements, Treaties and Negotiated Settlements with Indigenous Peoples in Settler States: their role and relevance for Indigenous and other Australians. (2002-2005) The University of Melbourne (Professor Marcia Langton, Chair of Indigenous Studies, and Ms Maureen Tehan of the Faculty of Law, and Dr Lisa Palmer, Postdoctoral Research Fellow), the University of Technology Sydney (Professor Larissa Behrendt of the Faculty of Law and Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning), ATSIC (industry partner).

The Public Law Aspects and Implications of a Treaty or Framework Agreement(s). (2002-2005) The University of New South Wales (Professor George Williams and Sean Brennan, Gilbert & Tobin Centre of Public Law including a partnership with Reconciliation Australia and support from the Myer Foundation), the University of Technology Sydney (Professor Larissa Behrendt and colleagues from the Faculty of Law and Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning), and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs (Dr Lisa Strelein).

Regional Autonomy

	Peter Yu, Aboriginal Rights and Governance: A Kimberley Perspective, Indigenous Governance Conference, Canberra, April 2002.
	ATSIC, Report on Greater Regional Autonomy, 2000.

Governance

	Indigenous Governance Conference. (2002).
	South Australian Native Title Negotiations

Economic Development

Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development.

Comparative

Study on treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements between States and indigenous populations. Final report by Miguel Alfonso Martínez, Special Rapporteur. UN Commission on Human Rights. (1999).

International Human Rights Law

Garth Nettheim, International Rights: Bases for Indigenous Rights. Treaty. Advancing Reconciliation. (2002) Murdoch University. Conference Papers.

Native Title

Sean Brennan 'Native title in the High Court of Australia a decade after Mabo' 14 Public Law Review 209

Health

Papers and related material from the National Forum on Indigenous Health and the Treaty Debate: Rights, Governance and Responsibility. A video and audio webcast is available here.

Canada

	Comprehensive Claims (Modern Treaties) in Canada. Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development.
	British Columbia Treaty Commission.
	First Nations Summit.
	Nisga’a Final Agreement and Background Documents. (Canadian government site).
	Nunavut Agreement.

Debate

Ravi de Costa, 'Treaty How?', The Drawing Board: An Australian Review of Public Affairs, Vol 4, No 1, July 2003.