First Peoples’ Values in a Settler State: Practice
摘要
While the theoretical context of First Peoples’ values in the Victorian context is maturing, the navigation of it in the praxis context is fragmented, disjointed and lacking solid First Peoples’ leadership and vision. This chapter considers the context of First Peoples’ values and their incorporation and non-incorporation into recent cultural values assessment reports in Victoria. The focus is upon reports in the public domain that have been prepared and tabled to narrate respective First Peoples’ values about a tract of Country, or landscape, in Victoria. Included are their articulation of concerns, priorities and possible strategies and answers that embody protection, conservation and management of each respective Country tract the respective reports consider as well as the applied legislative and definitional constraints and precedents that are presently framing, biasing and influencing the perceived nature of these reports in Victoria as statements of significance and strategies.