A vision for a National Indigenous Cultural Authority: Indigenous intellectual property and the need for infrastructure, panellist with Robynne Quiggin, Luigi Palombi and Peter Drahos, National Indigenous Studies Conference, AIATSIS Conference 2009, Manning Clark Centre, Australian National University, Canberra, Tuesday 29 September-Thursday 1 October 2009.
‘How well does the industry manage ethics and intellectual property rights?’
Plenary 7, Garma Festival 2009, Key Forum on Indigenous creative industries: opportunities, culture and knowledge, convened by the Yothu Yindi Foundation, Gulkula via Nhulunbuy Arnhem Land, Sunday 9 August 2009.
Tourism, Indigenous knowledge and intellectual property’, Keynote address to the Australian Indigenous Tourism Conference 2009, Townsville, 26 March 2009, convened by WAITOC.
‘Intellectual property rights and the protection of traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expression’, paper presented to Traditional Knowledge and IP Seminar, Wellington, New Zealand, convened by NZ Ministry of Economic Development, 26 September 2008, attended as consultant to WIPO. http://www.med.govt.nz/upload/65370/paper.pdf http://www.med.govt.nz/upload/65373/presentation.pdf
Presentation to the 21st Meeting of the Council of Pacific Arts, 31 March – 2 April 2008 with Wend Wendland, World Intellectual Property Organisation, Pago Pago, American Samoa, as consultant to WIPO.
‘Indigenous copyright lunch’, paper presentation at Wordstorm NT 2008, Hanuman Restaurant, Darwin, NT, 15 May 2008, convened by NT Writers Centre, sponsored by Law Society of NT, held in conjunction with Law Week.
‘Impact of information technologies on Indigenous cultural and intellectual property session’, Australian Indigenous Leadership Course, Alice Springs, 23 March 2008, convened by the Australian Indigenous Leadership Centre.
‘Aboriginal languages: traditional knowledge and intellectual property’, key note paper presented to WA State Language Centre Conference 2007, convened by Wangka Maya Pilbara Language Centre, South Hedland, WA, 21 May 2007.
‘Effective resolution of legal issues involving Indigenous culture and heritage’ presented at the 2006 IP Conference, Business Risk – Intellectual Property Management Essentials, Perth, WA, 16 June 2006.
‘The moral of the story: Indigenous communal moral rights’ presented at the 2nd Deadly Arts Business Conference, Melbourne, 24 September 2004, convened by the Koori Business Network.
‘Key principles in national protocols framework/Indigenous communal moral rights’ presentation at Respecting Cultures Workshops, held in Launceston, Tasmania 30 November 2004 and Hobart, 1 December 2004, convened by Arts Tasmania.
‘Indigenous film protocols’, panel discussant at International Indigenous Filmmaking Forum, National Museum of Australia, Canberra, 6 August 2003, convened by the ACT Filmmakers’ Network in collaboration with the National Museum of Australia, AFC, Business ACT and the NZ Museum and the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs.
‘Indigenous music, copyright and beyond’, presented at Pao! Pao! Pao! 2003, Celebration of Maori and Pacific Music and Dance, Hamilton, New Zealand, 1 June 2003, sponsored by the Australian Performing Rights Association Limited, New Zealand.
‘Our culture on our terms: promoting Indigenous Australian arts and cultural expression’ presented at International Indigenous Forum, Presented by Pacific Business and Law Institute, Department of Justice, Canada and Indian and Northern Affairs, Vancouver, Canada, 25 October 2002, sponsored by the Department of Justice Canada.
‘Branding cultures: Marketing Indigenous Australian Arts and Cultural Expression’ presented at Indigenous Art and Heritage Conference, School of Maori Studies, Massey University, Palmerston North New Zealand, 8 July 2002.
‘Asserting Indigenous cultural and intellectual property’ presented at Australian Indigenous Human Rights Conference, Ballina, NSW, February 2000 organised by members of Southern Cross University, published in Garkawe, S, Kelly, L and Fisher, W, Indigenous Human Rights, Institute of Criminology, Sydney, 2001.
University of Technology Sydney: Indigenous social research ethics – Masters of Indigenous Social Research Policy 1999 – 2003.
University of New South Wales: guest lecturing for Indigenous Pre-Law Program and Indigenous peoples and the law, 1996 - current.
University of Western Sydney: guest lecture for Comparative Law on Indigenous cultural and intellectual property and staff lecture series.
University of Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, Graduate Certificate in Indigenous Arts Management, Indigenous Arts, Policy, Protocol and Law, Block Lecturer, 2006 – current.
Macquarie University: guest lecture for Bachelor of Teaching (Early Childhood Services) Degree, 2005 and Lecture on Negotiating Skills, 2006.