Talk:Henrietta Marrie

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Biography

Henrietta Fourmile Marrie A Gimuy Walabura Yidinji person, born and went to school at Yarrabah a community south-east of Cairns... She has worked for many years as an academic with over 30 publications to her credit on issues relating to the protection of Indigenous cultural heritage, intellectual property and the bushfood industry.She took up a position in 1997 with the United Nations Secretariat for the Convention on Biological Diversity(SCBD), an international environmental treaty under the UN Environment Program. Henrietta is the first Indigenous person in Australia to be appointed to a full time professional position with a UN agency. She spent 6 years in Montreal, Canada working with the SCBD researching and drafting documents on issues relating to traditional knowledge, access to genetic resources and benefit sharing, protection of traditional knowledge as intellectual property, and other elements concerning the conservation and management of biological diversity. In September 2003 she accepted a position as Program Officer for North Australia and Melanesia with The Christensen Fund, a California-based private philanthropic body which makes grants to Indigenous and local communities in a number of regions around the world. Through Henrietta, The Christensen Fund has made grants to some of Australia's leading Indigenous events, such as The Dreaming Festival, The Garma Festival, and the Cooktown Corroboree as part of the Queensland Music Festival 2005, and the Queensland Performing Arts Centre's production of Blow 'im. She has also made grants in support of local Indigenous artists and exhibitions of their work at KickArts. Henrietta is also working to establish a Traditional Knowledge Research Centre, as part of the United Nations University, to be based in northern Australia... Henrietta continues to keep a close connection with her traditional Gimuy-Walabura clan country, the area south of the Barron River on which the City of Cairns now stands

Qualifications

• Diploma of Teaching (South Australian College of Advanced Education)

• Graduate Diploma of Arts (University of South Australia)

• Masters of Environmental and Local Government Law (Macquarie University) .. thesis entitled "The Convention on Biological Diversity, Intellectual Property Rights, and the Protection of Traditional Ecological Knowledge."

Experience

Henrietta served as a Program Officer at the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity where she was responsible for issues related to traditional knowledge and Article 8j of the Convention. There she was responsible for supporting Parties to the Convention in their initiatives to respect, maintain and preserve the traditional biodiversity-related knowledge of indigenous peoples and local communities, promote its wider application with the approval of its holders, and ensure the equitable sharing of benefits arising from the use of their knowledge.

Henrietta was formerly housed at the Centre for Indigenous History and the Arts at the University of Western Australia where she pursued research regarding the protection of indigenous cultural heritage.[1]

• Wet Tropics Scientific Advisory Committee 10/05/2004 - 24/05/2007

• Queensland Indigenous Arts Marketing and Export Agency Advisory Board 09/10/2006 - 30/06/2008

• Advisory Body to James Cook University's Centre for Tropical Tourism and Hospitality

The CTTH’s Advisory Committee is comprised of members from the tourism and hospitality industry, business community and local government. The committee makes an essential contribution to the centre advising on research, education and strategy matters. We are honoured to have the following members

1987

"Museums and Aborigines: A Case Study in contemporary Scientific Colonialism" Praxis M

1989

"Aboriginal Heritage legislation and Self-Determination" Australian-Canadian Studies. Vol 7. No 1-2

"Who Owns the Past?: Aborigines as Captives of the Archives" Aboriginal History Vol 13. 1- 8.

The first part of the title of my paper is an obvious reference to the Australian Academy of Humanities Symposium, of that title which took place here in Canberra almost exactly five years ago. Papers given at that symposium were subsequently published under the editorship of Dr. Isabel McBryde in 1985. In reading through those papers I was struck by their generally philosophical approach to issues of ownership regarding what was considered to be "the past." I was disappointed that a more realistic analysis of what constitutes ownership and how it is effected in relation to the past of indigenous peoples was not given, although Professor John Mulvaney in his paper, "A Question of Values: Museum and Cultural Property", in quoting American historian, Professor W.T. Hagan, did sum up the situation pretty well. The second part of the title of my paper refers directly to the reality for Aboriginal people, a reality we share with the American Indians, of being "captives of the archives."

"Aboriginal arts in relation to multiculturalism'

1990

"Possession is nine-tenths of the law: And don’t Aboriginal people know it" Bulletin of the Conference of Museum Anthropologists

"The Case for Independent but Complementary Aboriginal Cultural Institutions" Extending Parameters: Galleries and Communities

1992

The Need for an Independent National Inquiry into State Collections of Aboriginal and Torres Strait .. Aboriginal Law Bulletin, 1992

1995

A Smith, S Schnierer, H Fourmile "An Identification of Problems and Potential for Future Rainforest Aboriginal Cultural Survival and .."

Making Things Work: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Involvement in BioRegional Planning. Consultant's Report

"The politics of managing Aboriginal rock imagery" Management of Rock Art Imagery/ edited by Graeme Ward and Lucina Ward, Melbourne : Australian Rock Art Research Association, Occasional AURA Publication No.9, 1995, p.39-41

Critique of the site protection legislation in Queensland; argues for Aboriginal ownership of cultural assets and the representation of Aboriginal views in sites policy and management

"Aborigines and captives of the archives: a prison revisited " Archives in the tropics : proceedings of the Australian Society of Archivists Conference, Townsville, 9-11 May 1994, O'Connor,ACT: Australian Society of Archivists, [1995], p. 117-121

Author revisits earlier paper 'Who owns the past? - Aborigines as captives of the archives' 1988, and uses the Norman Tindale genealogy's held in the South Australian Museum as a case study.

"Dilemmas of Integrity and Knowledge:

Protocol in Aboriginal Research. Indigenous Research Ethics Conference 27-29 September 1995. Conference organised fby Centre for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Participation, Research and development. James Cook University

1996

"Protecting indigenous intellectual property rights in biodiversity " Perspectives on indigenous peoples management of environment resources: Ecopolitics IX Conference papers and resolutions / Ecopolitics Conference, Casuarina : Northern Land Council, 1996, p. 37-42

Links intellectual property rights to the ownership of biological resources; argues for an extension of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander native title rights to the control of fauna and flora; relationships to land

"Copyrites: Reproducing Aboriginal Culture" ART Asia Pacific

"The Queensland heritage Act 1992 and the Cultural Record (Landscapes Queensland and Queensland Estate) Act 1987 (Qld) :blegislative discrimination in the protection of Indigenous cultural heritage Australian Indigenous Law Reporter, Vol. 1, no. 4 (1996), p. 507-529

Highlights discrepancies which exist between legislation governing Indigenous and non-Indigenous heritage protection in Queensland; racial discrimination; ministerial powers greater for Indigenous heritage; only non-Indigenous sites protected on private property

"Aboriginal identity and tourism : a changing relationship" Tempus, 1996; v. 5 p. [109]-113

The art and tourism industries as mediums for the representation of Aboriginal identity; development of commercial and collectable Aboriginal art - use of traditional design; challenges of the tourist industry; exhibitions and galleries

"The law of the land : whose law, whose land" Tempus, 1996; v. 5 p. [45]-50

Definition and history of colonialism with reference to land title legislation in Queensland - Deed of Grant in Trust lands (DOGIT); also discusses The Cultural Record (Landscapes Queensland and Queensland Estate) Act

1997

Since 1997 (with a short break) she has been the United Nations Environment Programme Secretariat Programme Officer responsible for Article 8(j) of the of the Convention [on Biological Diversity]. In this capacity she was responsible for supporting Parties to the Convention in their initiatives to respect, maintain and preserve the traditional biodiversity-related knowledge of indigenous peoples and local communities, promote its wider application with the approval of its holders, and ensure the equitable sharing of benefits arising from the use of their knowledge. (see [2] )

1998

Using prior informed consent procedures under the convention on Biological Diversity to protect Indigenous traditional ecological knowledge and natural resource rights Indigenous Law Bulletin. Nov. 1998; Vol 4, no. 14-17

Reviews some of the international legislative developments following ratification of the Convention on Biological Diversity; many overseas legislative responses (for example, the Philippines, Costa Rica, Thailand and the Andean Pact countries, The Organisation for African Unity) require that bioprospectors obtain the prior informed consent (PIC) of the relevant Indigenous community; discusses Australia's legislative response in The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Bill 1998 and how there might be Indigenous input to the access regimes developed by the Commonwealth and states

1999

"Bushtucker: Some food for thought". Artlink, 1999

"13 Indigenous peoples, the conservation of traditional ecological knowledge, and global governance" in Global Ethics and Environment

"The Indigenous knowledge industry"

Explores three areas where there is a need for protection of Indigenous intellectual property - arts, social social sciences and biological sciences; looks at misappropriation of Indigenous images; In fields of biodiversity and biology, intellectual property protection of traditional knowledge is essential; compensation also needs to be assured

"Intellectual ownership, the Biota and Indigenous peoples : conference version"

Discusses indigineous communities and peoples as custodians and users of the world's biodiversity; the value of indigenous knowledge and options for protecting it; threats to traditional ecological knowledge systems from advances in gene and bio-technology

2000

"Respecting our knowledge: national research institutions and their obligations to Indigenous and local communities under article 8 (J) and related provisions of The Convention on Biological Diversity " Humanities Research no.1. Pg 41-53

Examination of the recognition of Indigenous interests in the Convention on Biological Diversity; discussion and summary of relevant Articles; extent of Indigenous interests associated with the research of the co-operative research centres examined in the output of the Co-operative Research Centre for Ecologically Sustainable Development of the Great Barrier Reef; argues for greater Indigenous representation

"Developing a regime to protect indigenous traditional biodiversity-related knowledge" Balayi Vol.1, no.1. p.163-182

Discusses the need for Indigenous knowledge to the incorporated into Intellectual Property Rights; concentrates on three issues - prior informed consent requirements, biodiversity contracts and the use of Native Title for intellectual property protection

"The Convention on Biological Diversity and Indigenous people : information concerning the implementation of decisions of the Conference of the Parties under the Convention on Biological Diversity " prepared by Henrietta Fourmile-Marrie and Glen Kelly. Centre for Indigenous History & the Arts, University of WA, 2000

UNCTAD Expert Meeting on Systems and National Experiences for Protecting Traditional Knowledge, Innovations and Practices. Geneva, 30 October 2000

Ms. Henrietta Marrie, Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity "Note by the Executive Secretary of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity"

2001

Materials written for WIPO by Graham Dutfield and

Henrietta Marrie on Intellectual Property and Traditional Knowledge Chapter 7 of Intellectual Property, A Power Tool for Economic Growth

2002

Cultural Heritage and Sacred Sites: World Heritage from an Indigenous Perspective" 15 May 2002 - New York University

2003

ANNOUNCEMENT:THE CHRISTENSEN FUND NAMES THEIR PROGRAM OFFICER TEAM

The Christensen Fund (T.C.F.) of California is delighted to announce the appointment of its new Program Officer team, responsible for developing this foundation’s new grant making around the interface of arts and culture and environment through a bio-cultural diversity perspective in support of local resilience and international understanding. Each Program Officer will play the lead role in one of the following four regions of the world that T.C.F. has prioritized: The Greater American Southwest (Colorado Plateau, Sonora and the Sierra Tarahumara); Turkey, Iran & Central Asia; The African Rift Valley (focus on southwest Ethiopia); and Aboriginal Northern Australia

& Melanesia.

2004

Centre for Indigenous Knowledge and Biodiversity's "Indigenous Knowledge and Bioprospecting" Conference, April 21-24, 2004 Macquarie University, Sydney Australia. See also [3]

Genetic resources, benefit sharing and the protection of traditional knowledge: towards a set of principles: Towards a National Strategy for Intellectual Property and the Protection AIATSIS Conference Canberra 22–25 November 2004

[http://www.reef.crc.org.au/about/events/HealthyCountryHealthyReef2004.pdf DAY THREE – THURSDAY 25 NOVEMBER 2004 Community Forum TROPICAL FUTURES - Where To From HereHealthy Country, Healthy Reef Joint Conference. Rainforest and Reef CRC Joint Conference.

'2005

The Dreaming - Australia's International Indigenous Festival

10 - 13 June 2005, Woodford QLD ..

Yindinji man Trevor Fourmile's dance troupe Yindinji Malaway is continuing the tradition of the North Queensland region and the community of Yarrabah. Shields representing each of their eight clans and rainforest peoples are significant to their dance. Each ochre design has a very significant meaning associated with totems or inspired by creation stories. The Shield Gallery allows you to have a close look at these amazing shields.

The Dreaming program includes a series of forums and talks that tackle major issues facing Indigenous and non Indigenous people in Australia. Some of Australia's leading writers, poets, community leaders,directors, visual artists and custodians will speak and discuss these issues, helping others see a different perspective on some subjects.

The Dreaming is pleased to welcome (Senator) Aden Ridgeway, Albert Holt, Denise Bolduc, Alexis Wright, Djon Mundine, Fiona Doyle, Donny Woolagoodja, Fiona Foley, Gary Lee, Henrietta Marrie, Ursula Raymond, Herb Wharton, Jackie Huggins AM, Jim Everett, Jim South, Karen Dorante, Lisa Bellear, Lydia Miller, Makerita Urale, Noel Tovey, Mick Dodson,Richard Bell and Sam Watson

2006

Speaker for Global EcoDesign Dialogues [4]

Sharing Knowledge: A Workshop on Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Strategies for Northern Australian Indigenous Communities[5]

2007

FRIDAY 8 JUNE NATIVE TITLE CONFERENCE – public program

International Experts Meeting Indigenous Knowledge and Changing Environments

"The Christensen Fund's 'bottom-up' approach to grantmaking in northern Australia Henrietta Marrie, Program Officer for North Australia and Melanesia." Australian Philanthropy - Issue 64: Indigenous Philanthropy

Data from QUT's Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies suggests that "business and private philanthropists ... do not venture into this funding [of Indigenous issues] because they believe they lack the expertise and knowledge to grant well to this complex sector and some labour under misconceptions about working with Indigenous causes." How can we open up the lines of communication between Indigenous communities and philanthropic funders, and what approaches have been found that really make a difference? In this, the fortieth anniversary year of the 1967 referendum which saw Indigenous Australians acknowledged as citizens, we ask Indigenous leaders for their views on working with the philanthropy sector, and we offer an inspiring collection of stories about ideas and interventions that have worked to reduce disadvantage and increase life opportunities for Indigenous people.[6]

2008

"Indigenous Soveriegnty Rights: International Law and the Protection of Traditional Ecological Knowledge" in Aileen Moreton-Robinson (Ed) Sovereign Subjects: Indigenous Sovereignty Matters. Allen & Unwin, ISBN 1741147247, 9781741147247 [7]

Article and picture in the Cairns Post "Forest tribal values backed"

WET Tropics Aborigines fighting for world recognition of their culture have won the support of Federal Heritage and Environment Minister Peter Garrett.

Indigenous values of 18 Wet Tropics rainforest tribes from Townsville to Cooktown were priority-listed by Mr Garrett for inclusion on the National Heritage List, the first step towards the World Heritage list.

Yidinji traditional owner Henrietta Marrie, who chairs the Wet Tropics cultural heritage intellectual property committee, said rainforest tribes had been fighting for cultural recognition since the area was World Heritage-listed in the 1980s.

"It is only now that there’s been a breakthrough," Ms Marrie said

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