Note this event is not located at Melbourne Connect.
Location: Yasuko Hiraoka Myer Room level 1 of the Sidney Myer Asia Centre.

There is increasing academic literature on the nexus between development and indigenous representation. Literature shows that the relationship between indigenous people and development is complex and multifaceted, which often involves competing interests in economic growth, environmental conservation, and human rights. Asymmetric power between indigenous people and developmental actors (such as state and private sector) provides the structural obstacle for indigenous people to participate in the development design. They often experience the high-level disadvantages of development such as loss of their land rights, economic marginalisation, cultural erosion, and limited source of life due to environmental degradation. Therefore, currently, global movement requires meaningful participation to secure indigenous people's representation in the governance of development.