Indigenous good governance begins with communities and institutions

We need to be prepared to recognise where native title fits in the jigsaw of reconciliation and Indigenous affairs. We need to recognise where we have not lived up to the promise of the Act.

We need to face up to a failure of imagination and competence.

It is not yet a lost opportunity but it's an opportunity in the process of being lost.

To rescue it and start realising this opportunity for what it is, native title must be liberated from the constraints imposed by legal technicalities so that we can take advantage of the culture of negotiation it created.