Cultural Licence to Operate in the Blue Economy
Wednesday 19th June 2024
4-5pm (AEST)
Flipping the script for Industry to consider the competitive advantage of working directly alongside First Nations through changing the formula of corporate responsibility in a more legitimised and objective way.
Unlocking the Blue Economy through an inclusive and equitable approach does not happen by chance. As governments, investors, rightsholders and stakeholders look to the sea as the next economic frontier, there is a renewed focus on ensuring a balanced approach to developing and managing ocean resources through cross-disciplinary engagement.
The presentation and video will explore outcomes from a trans-Tasman scoping project funded to build a Cultural Licence to Operate framework that helps to create the ecosystem for an ethical, equitable, dynamic, and responsive system in which negotiations are customised at place. This Indigenous-led study set out to strengthen the guiding tracks and transparency for shifting out from a transactional way to engage with First Nations through “keeping up an appearance” to building and maintaining a relational way of maximising co-benefits.
For more information on the project visit the project page.
PRESENTED BY
Name: Dr Cass Hunter
Affiliation: Indigenous Systems Researcher, CSIRO
Dr Cass Hunter is a descendent of Kuku Yalanji and Maluiligal nations in Far North Queensland. She has extensive experiences working at the science–economic–institutional interface for strengthening Indigenous leaders, senior managers and policy advisors in coming together to design and deliver goals that break new ground in addressing key challenges.
In her roles and appointments, she advises senior leaders and commonwealth & state governments on matters relating to transformative policy directions and ethically, respectfully, and strategically amplifying more diverse partnerships and outcomes from reform agendas. Currently, she is a serving member of the Federal Minister for the Environment’s Indigenous Advisory Committee and serves on several committees including Chair of the GBRF Traditional Owner Healthy Water Technical Working Group.
FACILITATED BY
Name: Greg Johannes
Affiliation: Chair, Blue Economy CRC
Greg Johannes has more than 20 years of leadership experience in the Australian public, private, not-for-profit and research sectors. His roles have included Head of the State Service and Secretary of the Department of Premier and Cabinet in Tasmania. In 2015 he was made a National Fellow of the Institute of Public Administration Australia for his outstanding contribution to the public sector in Australia over many years.
Greg has a deep interest in the oceans and extensive governance experience in the marine science sector. He recently completed a four-year stint as Independent Chair of the Australian Antarctic Program Partnership, was a long-serving board member for both the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CRC and the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, and is a former member (ex-officio) of the Australian Antarctic Science Council.
Greg also runs a boutique consulting company helping boards and CEOs address complex development and organisational issues. The son of a marine biologist, in his spare time Greg has been in or on the water since he was a young boy living in a remote village in Micronesia, and he snorkels and dives on the world’s coral reefs whenever he can.
