2018-19 Indigenous Knowledge Consultations

Overview

From September 2018 to 1 February 2019 IP Australia sought comments from stakeholders with an interest in how Indigenous Knowledge is protected, used and managed. Our aim was to identify policy options that relate to the IP responsibilities of IP Australia and help to promote the cultural integrity and economic potential of Indigenous Knowledge. More information can be found in our consultation paper. 

A summary of the feedback we received in this consultation was released in August 2019 in our Consultation Report. 

This consultation process followed the publication in March 2018 of Indigenous Knowledge: Issues for protection and management, a paper produced by the Indigenous owned legal firm Terri Janke and Company for IP Australia and the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science. 

In November 2018, IP Australia held a series of roundtables across Australia as part of this consultation process. Participants were given the opportunity to discuss their views on the issues raised in the consultation paper, including: 

• the key issues associated with the protection and management of Indigenous Knowledge in Australia; and 
• the options that IP Australia presented to enhance the promotion and protection of Indigenous Knowledge in Australia. 

Submissions for this consultation process closed on 1 February 2019. 

We received the following non-confidential submissions to our 2018-19 consultations: 

• Angela Giménez Barrera 
    
• The Arts Law Centre of Australia  
    
• The Australian Digital Alliance and the Australian Libraries Copyright Committee    

• Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies  
    
• The Australian Library and Information Association  
    
• The Australian Museums and Galleries Association  
    
• Dr Ana Penteado 
    
• Dr Dimitrios Eliades 

• First Nations Media Australia 
    
• The Indigenous Lawyers’ Association of Queensland  
    
• International Trademark Association 
   
• Kimberley Indigenous Saltwater Science Project  
    
• National and State Libraries Australia  

• The New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council  
    
• The New Zealand Institute of Patent Attorneys  
    
• The Northern Australia Aboriginal Kakadu Plum Alliance 
    
• The Victorian Small Business Commission