The Impacts of the Indigenous State on Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander Communities

There has been 6.2 million hectares of country added and $1.24 billion invested into the Indigenous state since 1995 through these partnerships. We're hearing that people want us to be working alongside them, that they want to explore opportunities such as getting involved in the commercialisation of native bush foods for example with them. Industries like bush foods as well are dominated by non-indigenous businesses at the moment so getting Indigenous voices in those spaces is important right? Absolutely,. I can say that's one of the drivers in fact that Indigenous people are saying why they want to get control of the industry is to use their knowledge, their intellectual property as being owned by them collectively. But obviously some of