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Attend and earn 1 CPD hour in Substantive Law
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*Original Content was created in 2023
Chair
Vance Hughston SC, Sixth Floor Windeyer Chambers; Market Leader Native Title Law Senior Counsel, Doyle’s Guide 2023
Energy Transition in Australia: The Central Role of, and Particular Burden on, Traditional Owners
Energy transition requires access to huge swathes of land for Renewable energy, Carbon farming projects, Gas projects, as demand for gas as a transitional fuel remains strong.
At a time when the free, prior and informed consent standard is becoming mainstream, law makers are attempting to design systems that respect Traditional Owners' rights as well as facilitate a path to net zero.
- Investigate how Traditional Owners find themselves in a central role in Australia's decarbonisation challenge, which creates opportunities but also pressures, in the potential industrialisation of traditional lands.
Presented by Clare Lawrence, Partner, Ashurst; Leading Native Title Lawyer (Project Proponent Representation), Doyle’s Guide 2023; Lawyer of the Year (Melbourne) for Native Title, Best Lawyers 2023
Presenters
Vance Hughston SC, Sixth Floor Windeyer Chambers
Mr Hughston has practised extensively as a trial lawyer in native title and in non-native title matters. Mr Hughston has argued the following native title cases as leading counsel before the High Court: Members of the Yorta Yorta Aboriginal Community v Victoria (2002) 214 CLR 422; Karpany v Dietman [2013] HCA 47; Wilson v Anderson (2002) 213 CLR 401. Other native title cases in which Mr Hughston has appeared at both the trial and on the subsequent appeal include: Fortescue Metals Group v Warrie on behalf of the Yindjibarndi People (2019) 273 FCR 350; 374 ALR 448; [2019] FCAFC 177 (leave to appeal to the High Court refused); Starkey on behalf of the Kokatha People v South Australia (2018) 261 FCR 183; (leave to appeal to the High Court refused); and Wyman v Queensland (2015) 235 FCR 464. He was a member of the Australian Law Reform Committee’s Native Title Inquiry Advisory Committee in 2014 / 2015. The 2022 Doyle’s Guide ranks Mr Hughston as the Market Leader amongst Australia’s native title barristers. The 2022 Chambers Asia-Pacific Guide also accords him its highest ranking (Band 1) amongst Australia’s native title Silks. Mr Hughston is a contributor to Perry and Lloyd’s Australian Native Title Law (2nd Ed.).
Clare Lawrence, Partner, Ashurst
Clare specialises in Indigenous land law and major project approvals. She works nationally, focusing on native title, Indigenous cultural heritage and the State and Territory based land rights schemes. She acts for government, Traditional Owners, and private sector clients across all industries that require access to land. Her work takes her from remote sites to board rooms, as poor management of Indigenous heritage protection has emerged as a key business risk. Clare continues to cement her status as a market leader in this space by contributing to the reform of key legislation in the field, and spearheading Ashurst's native title thought leadership and seminar programs, which includes Ashurst’s annual publication, Native Title Year in Review. She is ranked as a leading lawyer in Native Title by Chambers Asia-Pacific and Legal 500, and in 2023, was recognized by Best Lawyers as Native Title Lawyer of the Year (Melbourne). In the Ashurst Melbourne Office, Clare is a Reconciliation Champion working to deliver the outcomes from Ashurst's stretch Reconciliation Action Plan in the Victorian context.
