The Customary Land Podcast
Episodes
14 episodes
What AI Cannot Value: Indigenous Knowledge and Integrity in the Machine Age
In this episode of The Customary Land Podcast, Spike Boydell reflects on a question that is becoming increasingly urgent in the age of artificial intelligence: what happens when machine systems begin to shape not only how we work, but ho...
Partnership Valuation for Customary Land
In this episode of The Customary Land Podcast, Spike Boydell reflects on why compensation is often not enough in customary land, tribal land, and Indigenous land contexts.What may appear at first to be a reasonable lease, licenc...
International Valuation Standards Fall Short on Customary Land
The International Valuation Standards 2028 Exposure Draft makes an important advance by recognising informal, communal,...
Rethinking Mining Law on Customary Land
Fiji is currently reviewing the Mining Act 1965 and the Quarries Act 1939. In this episode of The Customary Land Podcast, Spike Boydell reflects on why that matters for customary landowners, and why compensation, royalties ...
Riding the Tides of Justice: Indigenous Sovereignty Across the Pacific
This podcast episode “Riding the Tides of Justice: Indigenous Sovereignty Across the Pacific” explores the rising global movement for Indigenous sovereignty, sparked recently by Senator Lidia Thorpe’s powerful call for land justice dur...
Let's go surfing...
In this episode I discuss several of the customary land related reviews initiated in 2023 by the Rabuka led Coalition Government in Fiji. These include:The Review of the Great Council of Chiefs (GCC).And, as foreshadowed by Prof S...
The Republic = The Aboriginal Voice
In this episode I explore how becoming a Republic and crafting a new Constitution fit for purpose in the 2020s offers Australia the perfect opportunity to truly recognise the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander 'Voice'. An Australian ...
The Plurality of Registers - Coronation, Aristocracy and Autonomy on Customary Land
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The Valuation of Unregistered Land
In this episode I sit down for a far-reaching conversation about the valuation of unregistered land with Mike McDermott PhD MA FAPI FRSA. Mike is an International Land Policy and Valuation Implementation Consultant who is also the author ...
Leasing Customary Land: Problem or Solution?
Leases are a common tool to enable surplus (or non-reserve) native land, tribal land or customary land to be used productively, be it for primary production, commercial or residential purposes. When properly crafted and managed, leasehold tenur...
Lessons from Timber Creek.
In this episode I sit down with Prof. John Sheehan AM to reflect on and explore lessons from the Timber Creek case.Our far-reaching discussion includes recognition (and extinguishment) of inalienable customary land rights, which are pre...
Who 'Owns' Customary Land?
In this episode we explore who 'owns' Customary Land... and it isn't as obvious as you may think!The episode is built around a paper that I co-authored with a former lawyer colleague, Krishn Shah, in which we explored customary land own...
Let's talk about 'Customary Land' & the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples...
In this episode we introduce 'Customary Land' and use land related articles from the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UN DRIP 2007) to explain its importance in contemporary society.For example, among the ...