Planning With A Difference: A Reflection On Planning And Decision Making With Indigenous People In Broome, Western Australia

This paper stems from an intensive community action project undertaken in July 1995 by the authors with colleagues from the Department of Planning, Policy and Landscape (now Landscape, Environment and Planning), RMIT University, and an alliance of Aboriginal groups in the Shire of Broome, in northern Western Australia. This work focused on developing processes for inclusion of Aboriginal peoples' viewpoints in planning and decision making by the Broome Shire Council. This Broome project led the authors to consider a range of theoretical perspectives regarding communication and democracy originally presented in a paper given at the ACSP/AESOP conference in Toronto, Canada in July 1996.