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Native title; social mapping and landowner identification; cultural heritage; maritime frontier history; political ecology; ethnotaxonomy; Papua New Guinea; Torres Strait
I am a social anthropologist and cultural heritage manager. My PhD research (1995-1998) was undertaken on the Torassi or Bensbach River area of Papua New Guinea’s Western Province, near the border with the Indonesian province of Papua. From 1999-2003 I was Anthropologist in the Native Title Office, Torres Strait Regional Authority (TSRA). Since that time I have continued to work in Torres Strait and Papua New Guinea as a consultant. I have also been a Research Officer at the Monash Indigenous Studies Centre (2017, 2021-2022) and Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland (PNG-Australia Borderlands Project, 2018).
Career Highlights
Anthropologist, Native Title Office, Torres Strait Regional Authority (1999-2003)
Director, Arafura Consulting (2005-present)
Author of anthropological reports for five native title consent determinations in Torres Strait
Discovery of mammal species Lagorchestes conspicillatus and Xeromys myoides in New Guinea
Memberships
BA (Hons) PhD (Qld) FLS
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