‘It says we’re innovators’: Greens push to make Indigenous IP a policy priority

The Yes campaign for an Indigenous Narrate to Parliament steps up efforts this week to make clear it’s from community, now not Canberra. But that’s now not the appropriate thing in motion that will give Indigenous Australians an alternative to lawful the legend on an foundation story.

Greens Senator and First Nations spokesperson Dorinda Cox said Indigenous intellectual property (IP) “underpins it all”. She wants the executive to commit to a two-year timeframe for standalone legislation that frames and protects First Nations peoples as scientists and innovators — “the first astronomers in this country, the first agriculturalists”.

“I could talk to minister Burney specifically about how we can actually achieve a more certain time frame around this because each day that ticks by we are seeing the lack of safety that’s being afforded to Indigenous knowledges in this country,” Cox told Crikey. “And each day it continues to discriminate and disadvantage.”

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